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TIL that CNN has prepared a sign-off tape to be played at the "end of the world"

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9PWB TIL in 1781 a slave ship threw 133 slaves overboard because they were sickly and wouldn’t fetch a good price. The owner took the insurance company to court to claim payment for the lost property and won.
p8xx4 TIL there were still three people using iron lungs in 2017, one of them permanently
DQOWJ TIL all roles in the "Alien" movie script were written as "unisex", with genders to be determined during casting; Ripley was initially considered to be a man
BgJDL TIL an intern at a television station falsely reported the Aircrew names of an Airplane that crashed at the San Francisco airport in 2013
OoKwX TIL The day Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom, a dance was previously scheduled for 7p. The dance was allowed to happen as scheduled with the bullets still in the wall, completely compromising the crime scene.