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TIL American Airlines saved $40,000 a year by removing one olive from each salad in first class and Northwest Airlines saved $500,000 a year compared by cutting their limes differently.

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Wk79o From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. So if our waterways are already filled with the stuff, why isn’t it filling the world’s skies with biofueled planes? Algae is a tricky creature that presents a lot of challenges and misconceptions. Here’s why it’s difficult to harness—and why it could big a big payoff.
O1d7 TIL that in the 13th century AD a French monk compounded all human knowledge into a tome of 32 books and 3,718 chapters; ranging subjects from philosophy, biology & psychology to the minutest details of theology, such as the nature of how angels communicate.
VMo90 TIL that in 1995 a Florida man buried 9 "unwanted" day-old puppies alive in a paper bag, in full view of their tethered mother. Mama dog broke free later and began frantically digging the ground and retrieving puppies, which luckily attracted the attention of a neighbor who phoned police.
BrxOK TIL Paul Revere never managed to warn anyone. He was actually captured, escaped, and then captured again. He was riding with two friends and it was one of them that escaped and managed to warn the Colonials.
19d8 TIL in June, 1982, the largest non-nuclear blast seen from space occurred in Siberia. It was the result of computer sabotage orchestrated by the CIA.