TIL that the famous plane hijacker known as D. B. Cooper was jokingly asked by a flight attendant on duty during the hijacking if he would give her some of his ransom money. He happily offered her...

TIL in 1998, the FBI sought to extract DNA from the cigarette butts smoked in 1971 by the unidentified airline hijacker known only as D.B. Cooper, but discovered the butts had been destroyed while...

D. B. Cooper - Unidentified man, who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971. Parachuted into the night with $200,000 ransom from the plane. Never been found or conclusively identified.