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TIL airlines make the boarding pass chaotic by design, so people will pay to get an easier boarding process.

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N7Kx8 TIL as part of the plan to keep the design of Godzilla from the 1998 movie a secret, Sony sent out fake designs to marketing partners to see who was loyal. Fruit of the Loom leaked the design and lost their Godzilla license.
PBZn TIL Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862 which created a system of land-grant colleges and universities that revolutionized higher education in the United States and helped the country become the scientific and engineering powerhouse it is today
9wMA6 TIL that in 2016, Saturday Night Live Korea faced controversy when female staffers groped members of K-Pop bands B1A4, INFINITE and B Block.
eMRb TIL in January 2015, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and dozens of artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter on AI, calling for research on the societal impacts and urging researchers not to create something which cannot be controlled.
8eRrX TIL the "heart burial" coincided with the Crusades where, rather than sending a whole body back for burial, they just transported the deceased’s heart preserved in lead or ivory boxes, often with spices to keep it from smelling too much.