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TIL Fedex got down to the last $5k, which wasn’t enough to refuel the planes to make that weekend’s deliveries. With impending bankruptcy and no other options Frederick Smith literally took it to Vegas, got lucky, and turned it into enough money to refuel, finish the shipments, and save the company.

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6EGmY TIL that the country north of Greece is still known internationally as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or FYROM because Greece objects to the use of the name ‘Macedonia’. This debate has gone on since the 40’s.
LkGvr TIL-Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance-He was most famous for his mapmaking expeditions to the Amazon, a place he called the last great blank space in the world. In 1925, at 57 years old he led his last expedition in the Amazon to find the Lost City of Z and was never heard from again.
j64dv TIL, Paul Stanley of rock band KISS was born half deaf with Level 3 Microtia, leaving him without an ear canal in his right ear.
9wwGM TIL Konami's Python 2 Arcade hardware (Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova, Thrill Drive 3, Guitar Freaks, etc) was just a Sony Playstation 2 with a 40GB Hard drive attached to some special hardware to accept coins and controller inputs
GARk5 TIL of Fort Stevens, Oregon, the only military installation in the mainland US to be attacked during World War 2. A Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast and fired a volley of shells at the fort, which took no damage aside from the backstop of its baseball field.