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TIL The numbers on a lottery ticket, like for the Powerball or MegaMillions, do not have to be in the order it was drawn to at least win something.

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EgQ4W TiL Charles Dickens was a passenger on a train crash. He tended the victims, some of whom died while he was with them. The experience affected him greatly; he lost his voice for two weeks and tried avoiding train travel whenever possible. He later died five years to the day after the accident.
mxNEO TIL that the cardboard sleeve around hot beverages that protect your hands from heat is called a zarf
d8Mp7 TIL the Norse gods eventually got sick of Loki’s pranks, tied him up with the entrails of his kids, and had a snake drip poison in his face for 10,000 years
w9oW TIL United airlines promised to help a blind woman off a plane once everyone had gotten off but they just left her there and the maintenance crew had to help her out.
oB4OL TIL: in the late 1960s, US plane hijacking had become so commonplace, specifically requests to be down to Cuba, but the industry so resistant to security changes, that a suggestion was seriously proposed to build a fake Havana airport in southern Florida to fool the hijackers into capitulation