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TIL: Man who grounded 4,000 planes on 9/11 was on first day of his job

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kg7E TIL in the ‘60s and '70s, professional bowlers were international celebrities who made twice as much money as NFL stars
jNdZE TIL that Coca-Cola from McDonald's tastes different compared to plastic bottles and other restaurant chains thanks to unique storage system, water filtration, syrup-to-water ratio, and cooler temperatures
Y706A TIL that in ancient pictures of unicorns, they were depicted more like goats not horses.
a876Z TIL that William Howard Russell, an Irish reporter for The Times, is considered to be the first modern war correspondent, and his coverage of the Crimean War was the first time that the British public could read about the realities of warfare
OGeja TIL the 2019 collapse of the Thomas Cook travel agency triggered UK's largest peacetime repatriation. Called Operation Matterhorn, over 140,000 British tourists were recovered with 150 aircraft in 746 flights. During that time, the UK government briefly was UK's 5th largest airline