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TIL an Air Canada flight in 1983 ran out of fuel mid-flight, but the crew managed to glide the 767 to nearby airport. The plane turned out to have only been filled with half the amount of fuel it needed due to a miscalculation because Canada was in the process of converting to the metric system.

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e6xJ TIL the original doughnuts from Dunkin’ Donuts had a handle
4XAjg TIL Rocker Sammy Hagar of Van Halen made more money in a single day than in his entire music career when he sold an 80% interest in his Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari for $80 million. He later sold the rest of another $11 million. He also owns several restaurants and a night club.
MeDr8 TIL about Joel Youngblood, the only Major League Baseball player to get hits for two teams on the same day. As a member of the Mets, he played an afternoon game against the Cubs. After the game, he was traded to the Expos, which played that night against the Phillies in Philadelphia.
Y5R7 TIL ‘Macaroni’ was an 18th century expression for fops who dressed in high fashion with tall, powdered wigs. The joke being made in “Yankee Doodle” is that Americans were allegedly naive enough to believe that a feather in the hat was a sufficient mark of a macaroni.
5YgKr TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd was named after Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher who used to send the band's members to the principal for their long hair. Later, the band used his real estate company's sign and phone number in album artwork, swamping Leonard Skinner Realty in prank calls.