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TIL 31 of the first 40 pilots hired to fly mail by the U.S. Post Office were killed in crashes

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jg1Q TIL in 2011, in response to employees’ complaints about work-life balance and the expectations of answering after-hours email from home, Volkswagen agreed to implement a rule restricting company email functionality on the firm’s BlackBerry smartphones from 6:30pm-7:30am.
nEn7 TIL The Unabomber agreed to stop planting bombs, if his Manifesto was published in a major newspaper. When Penthouse agreed to publish it, he changed his terms such that he would be allowed to plant one more bomb, because he thought so little of the magazine.
p8YM4 TIL the royal family (UK) changed their name to House of Windsor from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, due to German bombers of the name Gotha carrying out a strike on a school that killed 18 children on June 13, 1917.
BE4D TIL there is a psychological disorder caused by disappointment from visiting Paris.
woEx7 TIL that not everybody sees beams coming from light bulbs, and that the beams are a product of astigmatism where the cornea is slightly curved rather than round.