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TIL the the Royal Canadian Mounted Police place undercover sky marshals on every Canadian flight to Ronald Regan Washington National Airport

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rRpow TIL in 1999, defunct online retailer eToys once went in a legal battle with Swiss art group Etoy, who were attempting to take their web domain because of the similarity. This then led to the group turning it into an elegant campaign called "Toywar", which ridiculed eToys and was successful.
VM6Nk TIL Heroin became popular among american soldiers during the Vietnam war because it was easier to take secretly than marijuana.
4XVOo TIL ancient Egyptian eye makeup provided psychic protection as well beauty enhancement. An unadorned and thus unprotected eye was believed vulnerable to the Evil Eye. Outlining the eyes became a personal protective amulet drawn right upon the skin that, once applied, could not be lost or stolen.
xVXED TIL in 1946, a local chicken farmer offered 100 chicks for each homer the Nashua Dodgers hit. Newcomer Roy Campanella hit 14 in his first season and sent all 1,400 to his father who used them to start a thriving poultry farm. He also went on to become one of the first black major league players.
LQpYP TIL The Universe was so hot and dense after the big bang that it took 360,000 years for the first atoms to form. The proton and neutron formed atomic nuclei shortly after the big bang but the electrons were free of their orbit for hundreds of thousand of years.