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TIL about the real-life Lord of the Flies, i.e. what happened when six teenage boys were shipwrecked on a deserted island for 15 months

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LQLRV TIL There are more than 100 official Easy brands that aren't EasyJet
m1Z8E TIL that Bill Lear, creator of the Lear Jet, also invented the 8-track tape cartridge in 1964. It was originally called The Lear Jet Stereo 8 cartridge.
wLbME TIL about Abraham Wald, a statistician who helped the Allies during WWII to minimise damage to bombers.
XEpV8 TIL nearly the entire world uses one of 2 forms to say tea, basically derived from the Chinese words 'te' (ie Spanish & English) and 'cha' (ie Hindi & Russian), because of the way tea spread around the world from China. 'Cha' used in places where tea came by land and 'te' where imported over water
yPL8 TIL as recently as the 1700’s a man could use a woman’s pregnancy as evidence he did NOT rape her due to the belief one can only get pregnant if they enjoy the sex