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TIL in 2001, singer Aaliyah and her entourage insisted that their plane flew with roughly 700 pounds more than the planes maximum take-off weight. It crashed 60 metres from the runway, killing everyone onboard.

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R5d4l TIL about the Potoooooooo horse, a famous 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse who, as the story goes, got his name from the stable boy who misheard the name "Potatoes" and heard it literally as "pot-eight-o's" and wrote it out as such. The owner found it so funny that he kept the name.
Akw4 TIL There is a woman running for president in Afghanistan in the 2014 elections.
4Xk0X TIL That May 29th is Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day
e0AGk TIL that Bhutan is the only Carbon negative country in the world.
Z8x4p TIL in 1958 a white girl kissed two African American boys aged 9 and 7 on the cheeks. The two boys were arrested, detained for 6 days without access to their parents or legal counsel, & were severely beaten by the police. The boys were detained for a total of 3 months.