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TIL American Airlines declared bankruptcy in 2011, holding $4 Billion in cash.

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neAGb TIL in 1969, 17 year old Cuban, Armando Socarras Ramirez survived hiding in the right wheel well of a Douglas DC-8 on an eight-hour flight from Havana to Madrid. Upon landing he was found on the ground covered in ice and not breathing, Dubbed ''the popsicle" by Spanish doctors, he recovered fully.
VMyLB TIL that tadpoles can eat rabbit food!
0Gn5 TIL that Jet Li was presumed dead during the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster.
BgBWb TIL for Paul Walter Hauser's acting debut in the movie "Virginia", he was initially cast as an extra. After he complimented "Virginia" director Dustin Lance Black for his Academy Award acceptance speech, Black wrote him a larger role in the movie.
DQMNV TIL Giraffes are technically kosher