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TIL that airlines don’t pay tax on fuel
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TIL that in 1772, Alexander Hamilton survived a hurricane in the Caribbean and wrote a letter about his ordeal. His vivid descriptions moved people to start a fund to move him to New York to get an education. He went on to become a Founding Father and greatly shaped our early nation.
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TIL Some bars in Germany are connected by a 5 km (3 Mile) beer pipeline ..
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TIL that shortly after WW2, the 'Bitch Wars' were fought between Russian mobsters and former mobsters who joined the Soviet military. Collaborating with the government was forbidden in the Russian mafia, and the collaborators were given the named 'Sukka' meaning , 'bitch'.
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TIL in Canada you can serve a prison sentence on weekends.
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TIL that 14 years prior to Titanic tragedy, there was novel featuring the ‘biggest ship ever built’, an ocean liner called Titan, the “unsinkable”, which sinks after hitting an iceberg