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TIL US airlines commonly offered bereavement airfares, allowing passengers to travel to funerals or medical emergencies at deep discounts. This practice was stopped by most carriers in the early 2000s, with the exception of Delta and Alaska Airlines.

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V8W4 TIL 1 in 10 inhabitants on the island of Pingelap is color blind due to a ‘population bottleneck’ in 1775 after a catastrophic typhoon swept through the remote island leaving only 20 survivors. One of the survivors was King Nanmwarki Mwanenihsed, patient 0 with the rare Achromatopsia gene.
OoAje TIL that Finland's Lågskär island lighthouse contained the world's first rotating gas lighting device
KONlR TIL that Naftaly Frenkel was a prisoner in a Soviet Union work camp who proposed that inmates' food rations be linked to their rate of production. He was promoted to guard and eventually commandant. He would later oversee construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal by forced labor.
Webo TIL: There are 1.34 billion farmers worldwide, and 74% of them practice traditional handpicking on small farms, but supply less than 5% of our global food supply.
69RJl TIL there was a 100$ bill called the superdollar which was used as counterfeit money used by various crime organizations and governments from 1998 until the at least the 2000’s