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TIL that a completely legal technique called throwaway ticketing can save you a lot of money on airfare!

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abZJ TIL Ancient peoples in the Middle East and India tamed Cheetahs and trained them to ride horses.
6d58 TIL There is a hot dog stand in California that has a lawyer on hand to give free legal advice on Wednesdays to anyone who needs it.
VMQO8 TIL that Peter Butterworth (1915-1979), a British comedy actor, failed his audition for the 1950 movie The Wooden Horse because he "didn't look convincingly heroic or athletic enough". However, he was a POW in Stalag Luft III and actually helped in the real escape that the film/book was based on.
LpPZ TIL that Joan of Arc’s companion was a paedophilic serial killer whose victim count was in the 800s
0wGeR TIL in 1917, 1,300 miners went on strike in Bisbee, AZ over unsafe working conditions, low pay, and long hours. The mining company hired 2,000 men and loaded the strikers at gunpoint into cattle cars for a 16 hour trip through the desert without food or water and left them in New Mexico.