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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/t_dawg94 on 2024-08-08 19:56:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn’t afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company’s last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000 playing blackjack, and kept the company afloat.