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TIL that the word kidnap is relatively recent and originally meant "to steal or carry off children or others in order to provide servants or labourers for the American plantations."

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a8W7Z TIL Richard Branson makes an appearance in the Bond film Casino Royale
d7bZ TIL that the Airbus A380 jumbo jet was so well insulated from engine noise that the pilots couldn’t sleep during their rest periods as they could hear every crying baby, snoring passenger, and toilet flush. To combat the problem, Airbus was considering piping ambient noise back into the plane.
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O8Va TIL when the French king Jean II was prisoner of the English, he was allowed to return to France to raise money for his ransom, leaving his son as a replacement hostage. When his son escaped, he voluntarily returned to England, citing reasons of “good faith and honor”.