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TIL that a judge once threw out a British Airways lawsuit against Ryanair for their "Expensive BAstards!" ad campaign by ruling "the complaint amounts to this: Ryanair exaggerated in suggesting BA is five times more expensive, because BA is only three times more expensive."

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MeErb TIL that Aretha Franklin holds the record for winning the most consecutive Grammys in the same category. She won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance every year from 1968 to 1975, for an eight-year winning streak. She also won in 1982, 1986, and 1988, giving her 11 wins in the category.
vwo8 TIL Verizon developed a special knife that uses pressurized air to slice through lawns so fiber optic lines can be buried. The tool cuts through grass but does not break sprinkler pipes and gas lines.
oBOM8 TIL since an Ottoman sultan was killed in Kosovo in 1389, the same few Turkish families have maintained the battlefield tomb of his internal organs. Every generation in the current line - last name "Türbedar" (tomb caretaker) - has lived there since 1854, but it will soon end with a Bosnian widow
J19pj TIL English-speaking officials in Wales put up a bilingual sign reading "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only", but the Welsh part translated to "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated"... which was just the email response from their translator.
rRKrM TIL Mexico City is built in a bowl with no natural escape for water. Floods in 1629 left the city underwater for 4 years.