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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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j6Vxj TIL about "breakage" - money left on gift cards indefinitely, which the issuers eventually claim as revenue. In 2021, Starbucks reaped $181million from unused giftcards.
R5jGw TIL in 1000 AD, four kings fought in the naval Battle of Svolder. The kings of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway ambushed Viking King Olaf, who had only 11 ships against their 70. Despite a fierce last stand, Olaf leaped into the sea—his body was never found, and some claim he may yet return.
wLwpJ TIL one day Isaac Newton was asked by his colleagues why planets’ orbits are elliptical. He couldn’t answer so he went home and started thinking about it. A while later he invented differential and integral calculus, which he then used to answer the question.
8ax7V TIL that the inventor of Coca-Cola, John Stith Pemberton was a Civil War veteran who became addicted to morphine due to pain from a saber wound to the chest. Seeking alternatives to his morphine use, he developed the original formula for Coca-Cola with use of the coca plant for pain relief.
BYnd TIL The word ‘flaneur’ refers to a person that wonders around and observes society, a man who is not aimless in being but is not stressed of his life, he doesn’t worry about anything and is free from society’s pressures. He is a man that exists to observe.