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TIL Southwest Airlines (The world’s 2nd largest airline by passengers carried) has never had an in-flight fatality.

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neDWo TIL Martha Washington probably did not name her feral tomcat after Alexander Hamilton, despite rumors that may have originated in a satirical letter after Hamilton's death.
PYXlw TIL The woman killed in the Gare Montparnasse accident was filling in for her husband at his newspaper stand
kK5B TIL Hugh Laurie wangled himself a Burger King ‘crown card’, entitling him to free food for life, by pretending he already had one.
XamQ TIL in 1994, Andres Escobar, a colombian soccer player , was killed for scoring a goal by mistake to his own team in the football World Cup of that year. The murder was only ten days after the mistake.
nWyNY TIL that the last known cuneiform inscription, an astronomical text, was written in 75 AD