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TIL Bananas Are Viewed As Bad Luck On a Boat, and Have Been Since the 1700’s

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woJNE TIL about Alejo Garza Tamez, a 77 year old rancher in Mexico. In Nov 2010 members of the Los Zetas cartel demanded he leave his property within 24 hours. Instead, he told his workers to go home, gathered all of his weapons, and mounted a one-man defense, killing 4 cartel members and incapacitating 2
K1M6 TIL that Singapore Airlines flight 21 which had the longest non-stop flight (18 hours), from Singapore to New Jersey, had special lockers on the plane to store corpses if people died en route since the flight path over the Pacific Ocean and North Pole meant the plane couldn’t land if someone died.
pY8vG TIL that FedEx's Founder kept the company alive by gambling the company's last $5k in Vegas
M7gy7 TIL that “Children” by Robert Miles was written, in part, to help reduce car accident deaths after raves.
ER87 TIL that raccoons are called “washing bears” in many languages.