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TIL that United Airlines once had a computer system glitch and accidentally revived flight numbers 175 and 93 before correcting the error

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GY14E TIL about saturation diving. Divers working on deep-sea infrastructure such as oil pipelines live in a pressurised chamber for a month, taken between the chamber and their worksite by a pressurised diving bell. That way, they only need to be decompressed once, at the end of each 28-day job.
ONQe TIL Jim Henson operated Kermit from a cramped diving bell underwater with an air hose to the surface for The Rainbow Connection intro to The Muppet Movie. Filming took 5 days.
5V7wn TIL that the $1.50 hot dog combo from Costco is NOT a loss leader. Costco was able to lower costs by manufacturing its own hot dogs and cutting condiment options. The CEO claims that Costco does not engage in loss leaders.
4kpx6 TIL that, in 2022, a man died in a single vehicle car accident when the knife he was using to mix protein powder while driving was propelled into his neck by the force of his deployed air bag.
jNYaQ TIL that Constantinople was renamed to Istanbul in the 1930s, by the Republic of Turkey, not the Ottomans after the fall of the Byzantine Empire.