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TIL a group of transport fare-dodgers in Paris created an insurance scheme where they paid small amounts into a common fund which was then used when anyone got caught and fined.

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oB4OL TIL: in the late 1960s, US plane hijacking had become so commonplace, specifically requests to be down to Cuba, but the industry so resistant to security changes, that a suggestion was seriously proposed to build a fake Havana airport in southern Florida to fool the hijackers into capitulation
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