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TIL a young Richard Branson had his flight to the Virgin Islands cancelled, so he chartered a private airplane. Not having enough money to do so, he picked up a small blackboard, wrote “Virgin Airlines $29” on it, sold tickets for the rest of the seats, and used that money to pay for the ride.

7nlX TIL that migrating butterflies can reach heights of over 3000 feet and speeds of 30mph
GAY65 TIL that the popular manga/anime One Punch Man was inspired by the even more popular children's anime An Pan Man. The characters are a play on each other with their color schemes reversed and the play on names(One Punch Man pronounced Wan Pan Man in Japanese).
DQ49j TIL Let's Potato Chips is a fictional brand of potato chips that has appeared in shows such as Community, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and many others. Let's was created by prop company, Independent Studio Services, to avoid copyright concerns.
woL9W TIL After screening '48 Hours' Paramount wanted to fast track another project from the same team. Quickly, director Walter Hill thought of what he loved in movies in his teens like old cars, neon, high-speed pursuit, rumbles, rock stars, and motorcycles. That list became the movie 'Streets of Fire'.
ZKkR TIL David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, fought so hard to prevent FM Radio from succeeding that the inventor of FM Radio, Edwin Howard Armstrong, commit suicide because of emotional and financial distress…brought on by RCA lawsuits.