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TIL the Boeing 747 can carry an extra engine on its wing. Airlines used to use this capability regularly, when engines were less reliable, to deliver replacements to their stranded planes.

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0w7pA TIL about C.V. Wood, one of the chief designers of Disneyland and who helped secure funding through corporate sponsorships. He was actually fired three months after the park opened after Roy Disney caught him embezzling and he took his expertise to build other theme parks such as Six Flags.
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