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TIL that JetBlue and Southwest are the only major US airlines with no fatalities

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QNLvL TIL that 15 years before the publication of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, his wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy had already written and published a poem about 1984
nWoo TIL Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for her menstrual cramps.
EgoMd TIL pigs were first commercially slaughtered in Cincinnati, which became known as "Porkopolis"; by the mid 1800s Cincinnati led the nation in pig processing.
97pB TIL that Charles Darwin became interested in how vegetables crossed the oceans. In one experiment, Darwin fed seeds to a bird, shot it, and then placed the carcass in a bath rub to float. After a month, Darwin retrieved the seeds from the floating carcass and planted them. The seeds germinated.
Y7WXA TIL that Agatha Christie—1st recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award & "Best Writer of the Century" (Bouchercon World Mystery Conv.)—was criticized by Raymond Chandler, Julian Symons, and Edmund Wilson for being too artificial, banal, and superficial in her writings.