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TIL the liquid ban on planes wasn’t caused by 9/11 but by British MI5, who foiled a 2006 terror plot involving liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.

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epEEn TIL that dragonflies breathe through gills in their rectum, and can rapidly propel themselves by suddenly expelling water through the anus
E19WV TIL Russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski was working on the Synchrotron U-70, the largest Soviet particle accelerator in 1978. A proton beam measuring about 200,000 rads entered his skull, and 300,000 rads when it exited. Due to nerve destruction, the left half of his face was frozen and doesn’t age.
ynKw TIL: there are no laws in the USA specifically outlawing cannibalism, except in Idaho.
Me6R7 TIL the Kuomintang army fought the People's Republic of China from neighboring Burma into the 1960s
l7NKr TIL that TIL stands for "today i learned" and not "throwback in life"