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TIL the shortest scheduled commercial flight has a total flight time of 2 minutes and is used by children to fly to school

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Z81r4 Today I Learned that the Exxon Valdez disaster led to the creation of Credit Default Swaps, the financial instrument that massively contributed to the Global Financial Crisis.
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