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TIL in August 2001 actor James Woods reported 4 suspicious individuals on his flight. Authorities did not act on his claim and they later turned out to be the 9/11 hijackers.

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nJEB TIL that flight numbers are often taken out of use after a crash or a serious incident
7r5A7 TIL Rick Moranis and Geddy Lee attended Elementary School together.
RjP6 TIL of the assassin Balthasar Gérard and his brutal execution, involving having his right hand burned off with a red-hot iron, his flesh torn from his bones with pincers, quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his chest and flung into his face, and finally his head chopped off.
16X7V TIL that Marco Apicella has the shortest F1 career in history. Upon spinning his car in practice at the 1993 Italian Grand Prix, he managed to qualify in P23 for the race, only to crash his car on the first chicane, breaking his arm and ending his F1 career just seconds into his first race
5VlJr TIL: Charles Darwin spent 6 months in South America looking for a lesser rhea (an ostrich-like bird) only to have one served to him for dinner. Halfway through the meal, Darwin realized what he was eating, gathered the parts and sent them to England for taxidermy and formal classification.