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TIL that flight crews who are unfamiliar with each other are more prone to making errors.

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4Xk8J TIL that Tom Waits won a lawsuit against Audi when Audi used a song similar to Waits's "Innocent When You Dream" sung by Waits imitating singer. Waits had previously won a lawsuit against Frito-Lay for a similar commercial. Waits donated his settlement money to charity.
aXk9 TIL that when the original Scooby-Doo series was created by 1969, a young voice actor named Frank Welker was cast as Fred in his very first voice role. He later became one of the highest grossing actors of all time, and still voices Fred nearly 50 years later.
kOlL1 TIL the Japanese invasions of Malaya and Singapore using bicycles is known as the Bicycle Blitzkrieg
9wBeX TIL Kool-Aid wasn’t used in the 1978 Jonestown massacre; the poisoned drink was Flavor Aid. So the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid,” used to describe blind or dangerous devotion, is historically incorrect.
p8n4G TIL At the battle of Cannae, Rome lost 1/5 of its entire male population. Yet, the Republic continued to demand unconditional surrender from Carthage, and eventually won the war.