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TIL that flight attendants hate serving Diet Coke because at the high altitude it takes up to three times longer for its fizz to settle than for other soft drinks.

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nW9Wb TIL that in 2011, the country of Norway ran out of butter. As a result, prices soared and butter was smuggled illegally into the country.
xVAvk TIL there are Train Ferries, designed to carry railway vehicles. Some allow the trains to roll on and off directly.
lera TIL Amelia Earhart wrote a prenup letter to her fiancée, George Putnam, stating she wanted an open marriage and “I shall not hold you to a medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly”. Also “I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself”.
69YYZ TIL that in 1884 a 14-year-old Canadian Native boy was accused of a murder and was subsequently lynched by an American mob led by two men who were likely the real murderers
DO9Y TIL that “Karma” in the way most people use and know it as is not actually Karma. Karma is something to be inherited in the next life, not in this current life, according to Buddhist philosophy.