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TIL Amy Adams wasn't in Wedding Crashers

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A8Rn TIL that up until the mid-1980’s, female flight attendants in the US were required to be single (either unmarried or widowed) and were fired if they decided to get married.
9oVG TIL that two scientists, fed up with spam-like emails from a certain conference, submitted a research paper that consisted of only the phrase “get me off your fucking email list”. The paper was later accepted for publication by the Journal of Advanced Computer Technology.
x7Z0 TIL Ferrero uses a quarter of the worlds hazelnuts making Nutella.
l7n7K TIL that the octane rating you see at the fuel pump isn't the percentage of octane in your fuel. It's simply a measure of its resistance to engine knock in comparison to the isooctane standard.
ADZYg TIL that three original transcripts of the minutes of the 1431 trial of Joan of Arc still exist.