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Til about the Gladbeck Hostage Crisis, when a bus was highjacked in August 1988 after an armed bank raid in Gladbeck, West Germany, and the German media reporters apparently helped the kidnappers during the crime to get a good story

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P19Oe TIL Andre Agassi won 10 of 11 matches after seeing a "tick" in Boris Becker's serve. Agassi could predict where Becker was serving based on whether Becker stuck his tongue out in the middle of his lip or to the left corner of his lip. Agassi told Becker over a pint of beer - after they retired.
BrbRy TIL: Vanilla comes from a flowering plant in the orchid family. It grows as a vine and flowers only bloom for one day. There is only a 1% chance of wild pollination so each flower must be hand pollinated. The fruits are 15–23 cm (6–9 in) long pods and are used to produce vanilla extract.
XLwr TIL that Coolio regretted giving Weird Al a hard time about “Amish Paradise,” and feels “that was one of the dumbest things I did in my career.”
KOJYR TIL there's a legal strategy called the "Shaggy Defence", where in the face of direct evidence of guilt, the defendant simply claims that it wasn't them.
neJdr TIL squirrels in North America once migrated in numbers of well over a billion at a time and it could several weeks for them to pass through a single town. Lewis & Clark even recorded such an event.