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TIL that 30 years ago, you could buy a Lifetime, Unlimited First-class Travel pass with American Airlines and now they’re Regretting it.

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nWLL9 TIL Carole King wrote the song "You've Got a Friend" in response to James Taylor's "Fire and Rain", specifically the line "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend."
ke0m TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.
NXBJN TIL about the "My Way Killings" a social phenomenon in the Philippines that describes a string of 12 unrelated murders between 2002-2012 all related to Frank Sinatra's song My Way.
ne75P TIL that even though the Pied Piper of Hamelin is just a story/myth, the town of Hamelin's records state that many children disappeared from the town around the time of the story. The town chronicle even wrote in 1384 "It is 100 since our children left".
kV7g TIL that in 2005 scientists created a 100% effective non-human Ebola Vaccine which could potentially be ready for licensing by 2010 or 2011. However, it “sat on the shelf” due to the resistance of drug companies as poor countries couldn’t afford to pay and Ebola was “rare”.