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TIL airlines sell your lost luggage after 90 days.

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Bx0W TIL there is an island the size of Manhattan in the Bay of Bengal whose inhabitants have had almost no contact with the outside world. It may be the last such place on earth.
GArX1 TIL: Someone at the National Health Service in England sent a test email to 840000 colleagues and another replied all, resulting in one of the largest reply all storms. 168 million emails were sent between people and caused the health system to be down for half a day.
N7gjP TIL that there is a true heavy metal band, weighing about 1 1/2 tons, consisting of only robots. The guitar player has 78 fingers
0dyLM TIL of the great auk, a penguin-like bird that roamed the North Atlantic until it went extinct in the mid-19th century. One of the last known members of the species was killed by a group of Scotsmen who believed it to be a witch.
WkQeY TIL Ejection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker run the Ejection Tie Club, that is confined solely to those who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, which has thereby saved their life.