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TIL that Life of Brian’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” is the most popular funeral song in the UK and was sung at Graham Chapman’s funeral

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8anV4 TIL that Spirit Airlines once had a person in charge of writing apology letters to disappointed customers. The "senior manager of proactive customer communications" mailed off about 20,000 apologies a year. Each one explained what went wrong on a flight and contained the manager's direct phone line.
699YZ TIL in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt gave an eighty-four minute campaign speech with an undressed bullet wound in his chest.
Q0Pp TIL it’s normal to have an urge to jump off a cliff
VBQ8Z TIL that e-bike use is increasing in Amish communities as an alternative to a horse and buggy
6ExOm TIL that drivers with more expensive cars are less likely to yield to pedestrians. A study has found that the likelihood of yielding goes down by 3% for every extra $1,000 in car value.