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TIL for whom the bell tolls does not mean that the dead cant hear the bells

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8apjL TIL of Thomas Fitzpatrick, who drunkenly stole a plane from New Jersey and landed on the street outside the bar in NYC where a patron didn't believe that he could get from New Jersey to the city in 15 minutes. Two years later he did it again after another bar patron didn't believe his first story.
p0A8 TIL Weird Al Yankovic’s song “The Saga Begins”, which is about the plot of Star Wars Episode I, was mostly composed from internet spoilers before the movies release.
rjrW TIL that over 100 million Sharks per year are killed to fuel the shark fin industry. This has caused the populations to drop 60-90% over the last 15 years.
7rj9Z TIL that a Nature photographer, Kjell Bloch Sandved, curated a collection of butterfly and moth images with interesting patterns on their wings that resembled all 26 letters in the English alphabet, as well as the 10 single-digit numbers.
On7R TIL Elevator Music was created to distract riders from the terrifying sounds of early elevators.