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TIL of USAF Captain Craig Button. In 1997 he broke formation and flew his jet for almost 800 miles before crashing into a mountain. The bombs on his jet were not recovered at the crash site and no one knows what happened to the bombs or the reason for his actions.

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79JZ TIL that author John Steinbeck was investigated by the FBI for being acquaintances with leftists and attempting to write a novel exposing the conditions in Japanese concentration camps in 1943.
evoJ TIL that John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men was originally titled “Something That Happened”
x6AM1 TIL that the Golden Record sent to outer space by NASA also carries an hour long recording of the brainwaves of Ann Druyan who thought of many topics, including Earth's history, civilizations and the problems they face, and what it was like to fall in love, in addition to music and scientific images
p8bnZ TIL the US Navy conducted mock air attacks by aircraft carrier on Pearl Harbor in 1932 and 1938. In both exercises the attacks were successful, demonstrating the importance of air power over battleships. Both exercises were ignored by the US Navy but were studied carefully by the IJN.
N7rrb TIL Bobbie the Wonder Dog covered 2,551 miles on his own to return home to Oregon after he was lost. He returned mangy, dirty, and scrawny, with his nails worn down to nothing and seemingly walked the entire distance, swam rivers, and crossed the Continental Divide during the coldest part of winter.