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TIL Alitalia, an Italian airline, had only one year of profit between founding in 1941 and demise in 2021

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jNRxR TIL that in the 50s a frenchman was both fined and given a gold medal for the unintentional killing of an estimated 90% of the rabbits in France, 99% in Britain and many more across western Europe