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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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WkK0X TIL in 1996 the Argentine branch of Coca Cola announced they would give away free tickets to a Ramones concert in exchange for ten bottle caps. Massively underestimating the band’s appeal in Argentina, Coca Cola didn’t have enough tickets available, resulting in riots and looting
R7DA1 TIL The term pizza was first recorded in the 10th century in a Latin manuscript from the Southern Italian town of Gaeta, several hundred years before tomatoes arrived in Italy.
ANWbd TIL that 15 birds would perish at the McCormick Place, the largest convention centre in the US, on a typical evening
e0xn4 TIL Sigmund Freud never cured anyone. He promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise
oR4vE TIL that the USDA cold storage is a public report, and the US currently has almost a billion pounds of frozen french fries