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TIL the Organization Responsible for All Canada Airline Complaints Has a Total of 6 Decision Makers

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X07aR TIL of Lincoln's 4 children, only one outlived them
MpZm TIL Prosecutors tried to put wrongfully convicted Juan Rivera back in prison for murder by introducing new evidence of blood on shoes; defense proved the shoes were not available for sale until after the alleged murder, resulting in an evidence tampering investigation
dDavd TIL that Adidas is actually named after it's owner Adolf Dassler, who created sport shoes along with his brother. Both Adolf and his brother joined the Nazi party in 1933.
d8emQ TIL the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food".
ANXJB TIL that there was an urban legend about a Japan baseball team that had 18-year losing streak because in the 80's they threw the statue of Colonel Sanders into the river.