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TIL that the infamous 1971 D.B.Cooper plane hijacking remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. The FBI officially suspended their active investigation in July 2016. The 60-volume case file is open to the public to read.

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9YVPB TIL English actor David Bradley, famous for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter movies and Sir Walder Frey in Game of Thrones, is also an accomplished stage actor who won a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of King Lear.
Y7J4G TIL The Sun makes a sound but we can't hear it
pe8 TIL that Joanne Rowling, better known by her initials J K, does not have a middle name, according to her birth certificate. The use of the author’s initials instead of her full name was a marketing ploy designed to make her work acceptable to boys, who actively choose not to read books by women.
X0wVP TIL about Skywave, a phenomenon in which radio signals "bounce" off the Earth's ionosphere. This mainly applies to AM and short wave radio signals which is why they can reach further distances.
lwmB TIL that John Williams lost at the 50th Academy Awards (Close Encounters)…to himself (Star Wars).