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TIL that if you are INVOLUNTARILY bumped off your flight, U.S. airlines are required to give you cash or a check of the one-way fare to your destination equal to 200% of that amount if you arrive 1 to 2 hours late on next flight. More than 2 hours gets you 400%.

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kJwld TIL in 2014, Bell had a $2.80 Touch-Tone service fee for landline customers that was voted as "Canada's dumbest charge"
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