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TIL India’s “Go Air” airline only hires female flight attendants because they are lighter, so they save up to $500,000 per year in fuel.

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OoPL6 TIL Daniel Radcliffe has a mild form of the neurological disorder developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia). The motor skill disorder sometimes prevents him from doing simple activities, such as writing or tying his own shoelaces.
wmnM TIL Al-Qaeda attacks financed by $500,000 cost the US more than $500 billion
V044 TIL Timothy Cole was arrested and convicted of rape in 1985 and sentenced to 25 years, dying in prison in 1999. After the statute of limitations on the crime had run out, the real rapist confessed and DNA testing proved Cole innocence. He was officially pardoned in 2009.
kO5L7 TIL about the Grasshopper Mouse - a mouse that eats snakes, scorpions and other critters and is immune to scorpion venom. The best part is that it lets out a horrifyingly cute howl after eating and has been nicknamed the Ware-wolf Mouse
KOdwB TIL after the movie Office Space premiered, Swingline received requests for red staplers, which they stopped selling years prior. Due to high demand, they began to produce the red staplers again. They would later become the company's best selling stapler and transform the image of the company.