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TIL a plane was grounded after a professor was mistook doing math and differential equations for designing a bomb.

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Og5Y TIL Jack Nicholson worked for animation legends Williams Hanna and Joseph Barbera. He was talented enough to be offered a spot as a staff animator, but declined in favor of acting.
9RBG TIL that the color orange was named after the fruit. Before that, the color was typically referred to as “yellow-red”, leading to many orange things being described as “red”, such as red hair, red deer, and robin redbreast.
R7Wv1 TIL that Jackrabbits are hares
KOQeQ TIL the food in Alcatraz Prison was so good that the guards and prison staff ate the same exact meals as the prisoners. This was because the warden believed most trouble in prison is caused by bad food.
4Xe5R TIL during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, police arrested armed civilians defending Koreatown instead of nearby looters, and police and the National Guard would often protect the suburbs far away from the riot areas, whose businesses were largely left to burn