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7NML TIL a man in China purchased a first-class plane ticket — and used it to eat a year’s worth of free meals at the VIP lounge at Xi’an International Airport.
Lro0 TIL the world’s most successful pirate was a Cantonese woman, having commanded 40,000-80,000 pirates, and faced off undefeated against many Imperial fleets (including British, Portuguese, and Qing navies).
RQda TIL on new years eve in 2010, restaurateur Ted Balestreri offered to open a bottle of 1870 Lafite Rothschild, one of the rarest wines in the world, for former CIA director Leon Panetta if he captured Osama Bin Laden. Five months later, Osama Bin Laden was captured and the bottle of wine was opened.
8eYEV TIL during the 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull (which resulted in the several day closure of European airspace) one of the only European airports to remain open was Iceland's Keflavík International Airport.
KY99G TIL many stories were made by our ancestors to explain the Aurora borealis in the skies. In Greenland, people held the bittersweet belief that the lights were the spirits of babies who had died in childbirth, dancing across the sky.