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TIL that an Indian airline only hires women because they are lighter, so they save up to $500,000 per year in fuel

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XdrQ TIL that mathematician Paul Erdös regularly took amphetamines, which worried his friends enough that one bet him $500 that he couldn’t quit for a month. Erdös won the bet, but later claimed mathematics had been set back a month.
kJrZd TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.
M74M0 TIL that Nursing Activision-Blizzard employees kept getting their breast milk stolen
e07OE TIL: Only one acorn in 10,000 will become an oak tree
YpGJA TIL Iowa man Jerald Reiter brought his pet zebra & parrot into the Dog House bar in Dubuque, but the bartender told the trio to leave. Although his truck wasn't in motion when police found Reiter sitting in his truck with the zebra & parrot, he was charged with an OWI. A friend drove the pets home.