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TIL American Airlines lost $40 million on just two passengers who bought unlimited lifetime first class travel passes

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QBWp TIL A study showed that children whose parents placed the children’s pacifiers in their own mouths before giving it to the child were less likely to develop allergies like eczema and asthma later in life.
9YQKG TIL Developers of Spyro 3 delayed piracy by two months by hiding confusing code that would break the game in ways like randomly changing the language or removing collectibles if a crack was detected. The cracking group that finally succeeded thanked them for the unique challenge.
KOOW4 TIL that the official definition of 1 second is based on a quantum mechanical phenomenon, namely "the duration of 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Caesium 133 atom's outermost electron"
J1vL8 TIL about Ancient Gene Flow in Eastern Europe. The genetic studies show long-standing contact and gradual admixture between Steppe individuals and Cucuteni-Trypillia populations in Eastern Europe as early as 3500 BCE.
k941 TIL Emperor Haile Selassie, believed by Rastafarians to be a god, was presumably among the few historical figures ever to have to deny his divinity.