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TIL the 16-year-old son of a pilot was permitted to sit in the cockpit of an Aeroflot flight while it was on autopilot. However, he disengaged the autopilot, causing a chain of events that resulted in the plane crashing and the death of all 63 passengers and 12 crew members on board.

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oRKXE TIL The Saint-Bélec slab (2150–1600 BCE) is a stone artefact from Brittany thought to be the earliest map of any known territory. The slab was discovered in 1900 and then forgotten for more than a century in the cellar at the Château de Kernuz, where it was rediscovered in 2014.
amnZ TIL when the United States started taxing tires imported from China, China retaliated by taxing chicken feet imported from the United States, costing American poultry farmers $1 billion in sales.
Ddgr TIL the worlds largest recorded tsunami occurred in Lituya Bay Alaska in 1958. The wave was 516 metres (1720 feet) in height, and taller than the Empire State Building that stands 443 metres (1454 feet) in height.
epWMJ TIL that L.A.-based commercial artist and Vietnam War veteran Patrick Nagel, who became famous the 1980s for his art of women for 'Playboy' and Duran Duran's 1982 album 'Rio', died of a heart attack after a celebrity Aerobathon in 1984, aged 38.
p8r5O TIL John O'Brien, who wrote the novel "Leaving Las Vegas," only wrote one other produced piece while he was alive, a 1992 episode of Rugrats.