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TIL Flight Attendants don’t get paid a full wage for the boarding process, some don’t get paid at all. AirCanada strike is exposing me to the unfair world for flight employees!

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R7yy8 TIL you’re supposed to change the direction of your ceiling fan for summer vs winter fans.
vPXP4 TIL that during the American Civil War, agents of the Confederacy attempted to spread yellow fever in the North (using contaminated blankets) in one of the earliest recorded examples of biological warfare.
KGM4 TIL 24 writers of the Simpsons went to Harvard
RWB6 TIL doctors induced labor to make sure the Kim Jong Un’s child was born in 2012, which marked the 100th anniversary of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung.
v7lK TIL Poposicle® ice pops were originally known as Epsicles, as they were invented in 1905 by 11-year-old Frank Epperson. Epperson shared the frozen treat with his kids many years later, at which point they became known as “Pop’s sicles,” leading up to a patent on the frozen treat in 1923.