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TIL United airlines promised to help a blind woman off a plane once everyone had gotten off but they just left her there and the maintenance crew had to help her out.

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EYpd TIL that Hans Zimmer, composer of the MAN OF STEEL soundtrack and many many others, also wrote the song VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR way back in 1982
M7kab TIL Michael Jordan has an HEIR App
XdXD TIL Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin’s manager, is reported to have secured 90% of gate money from concerts performed by them. His trust and loyalty to Led Zeppelin was such that his managerial arrangement with the band was via a gentlemen’s agreement
a8DeA TIL - Lichtenstein during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 had an army of 80 soldiers, and they returned home with no casualties and a new friend they made along the way
Oyy1 TIL James Madison proposed creating the Senate to protect the very wealthy from the poor: “Landholders ought to have a share in the government […]. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body”