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TIL In October 2015, United Airlines made a man with Cerebral Palsy crawl off one of its flights. The flight attendants just watched as he struggled.

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B71K TIL that In November 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio donated $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia’s tiger summit. DiCaprio’s persistence in reaching the event after encountering two plane delays caused then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a “muzhik” or “real man”.
KjDG TIL That NATO must treat any attack on an ally’s soil as if it were their own, unless it’s Hawaii.
WdR4 TIL of the “phantom traffic jam” and why traffic jams get created sometimes when nothing is actually in the way.
AAon TIL Ulrich von Liechtenstein, Heath Ledger’s character in “A Knight’s Tale”, was a real person.
GAL9j TIL in 2014, a woman was held in jail for one month after police mistook sauce from a can of SpaghettiOs on a spoon in her purse for meth. The arresting officer said he “found it strange” that Huff would eat SpaghettiOs and put the spoon in her purse