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TIL Ralph Lauren's Original name is Ralph Lifshitz

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ey0b 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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NXw06 TIL in mid-1843, writer Charles Dickens began to suffer from financial problems, and matters worsened when his publishers threatened to reduce his monthly income. To prevent this, Dickens’ spent 6 weeks obsessively writing a novella. The result? “A Christmas Carol” - which sold out in 3 days.