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TIL JetBlue has an E190 plane named “My other ride is a jetBlue A320” and an A320 plane named “My Other Ride Is A JetBlue E190.”

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Eg4W TIL that there is a Hadith in Islam that states “the ink of a scholar is more holy than the blood of a martyr”.
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