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TIL Airport runway numbers actually indicate direction on a compass

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549Q TIL that Coca Cola had tried to sell bottled water at a premium price which happened to be tap water taken from the mains
OG55a TIL the second and third groups of people to circumnavigate the globe did so unwillingly. They were Spanish expeditions that sailed the Atlantic and Pacific to the East Indies and the Philippines, captured by the Portuguese, and taken captive to Lisbon by way of the Indian and Atlantic.
0dRkp TIL of William E. Boeing who dropped out of Yale University in 1903. Boeing founded the United Aircraft & Transport Corp. but in 1934, the Air Mail Act was passed. Boeing was forced to break his company up into 3 separate entities which included 'Boeing' and 'United Airlines.'
NXQJE TIL in 2014 Meryl Streep attacked Walt Disney for being “a bigot” while presenting the Best Actress award to Emma Thompson for “Saving Mr. Banks”, a Disney film about Walt Disney. Streep referenced a rejection letter in 1938 from Disney informing a female applicant that “girls are not considered”.
RoN4 TIL that Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, stormed out of a lecture given to college students after being told his interpretation of his own book was wrong.