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TIL American Airlines is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger mile, and daily flights.

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dDe5Z TIL that every book published in the United Kingdom and Ireland has to have one copy kept at the British Library. It gets about 8,000 new books every day, adds 6 miles (9.65 km) of new shelf space annually, and stores over 200,000,000 titles.