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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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1akdD TIL one part of Istanbul lies in Europe and the other part lies in Asia. European part is separated from it's asian part by the Bhosphorus strait
d86PZ TIL that researchers at Yale managed to restore some function to disembodied pig brains.
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