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TIL United Airlines has repeatedly killed more pets per year than any other US airline.

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oBEyE TIL that Ronald McDonald isn’t allowed to tell children where the hamburgers really come from, “if they asked where the food came from [we were told to say] that the hamburgers grow in a patch with the French fries next to them”
LdLP TIL - In 1916, Manfred von Richthofen was considered a below average pilot who crashed during his first flight. Upon his death two years, and 80 aerial kills later, the British buried The Red Baron with full military honors out of respect for his skill as an aviator.
6EKLZ TIL about the Burakumin (部落民, "hamlet people"/"village people", "those who live in hamlets/villages"), an outcast group at the bottom of the traditional Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of severe discrimination and ostracism.
Meb8A TIL that rats were thought to be carriers of the bubonic plague and that in Sydney, around 200,000 rats were caught to eliminate the disease.
o4OA TIL there was a book written in 1998 predicting the value of beanie babies in 2008. Written as an investment guide, some were rated as high as $1000-$2000.