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TIL that flight attendants are trained to look for signs of human trafficking and even volunteer to help law enforcement every year at one of the biggest events of human trafficking, the Superbowl.

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b6pjE TIL that Taser is an acronym for "Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle". Jack Cover, the inventor of the Taser, was inspired by a young adult novel published in 1911 that features the namesake character and weapon.
bj70 TIL the more (and longer) a person drinks alcohol, the more damage they’ll inflict on the parts of their brain controlling impulse and judgment.
gMrNy TIL that the traffic on the Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris is so chaotic, insurance companies will always split the liability of an accident 50/50.
rom4 TIL Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (YKK) produces nearly 7 billion zippers a year. Their every stage of the zipper making process is in house i.e. from smelting their own brass and building the zipper-making machines to making the boxes they ship in.
wLBNM TIL That the chair has been around for nearly 5,000 years. The earliest example in the form of a sculpture from the Cycladic Islands at approximately 2,700 B.C. which was prior to Egyptian chairs, which were typically stools. Chairs with arms and backrests implied elite status.