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TIL “Jim Wilson” is the American Airlines code for coffin or cadaver shipments

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wpYW TIL Some plants are able to recognise their relatives and will warn their kin about potential threats, but won’t warn plants they are not directly related to.
m14QR TIL an airline cancelled the frequent flier miles of a skiplagger (someone who gets off at the connecting flight destination)
vR8j TIL that St Jude’s Hospital, which has treated thousands of children with cancer, is not religiously affiliated, and instead was founded by actor Danny Thomas because of a promise to the patron saint of lost causes after he found success in Hollywood
JY7RQ TIL during the filming of the Lord of the Rings, Christopher Lee (a WW2 veteran) corrected director Peter Jackson on the right noise a person who got stabbed in the back and die would make: it's not an "argh" scream, but an "uh" because "the breath is driven out of your body". (Video starts at 0:10)
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