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TIL British Airways edited out the cameo of rival Richard Branson and obscured the tail-fin of one of Branson’s Virgin Atlantic planes, in the in-flight version of the James Bond flick Casino Royale.

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VAbQ TIL when a male bee climaxes, its testicles explode!
GAN4G TIL the sun takes 225m Earth years to make one full orbit around the centre of The Milky Way. This is called the galactic year.
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OoxOY TIL of the Atlanta Compromise (1895) Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law. Blacks would not focus their demands on equality, integration, or justice.