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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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GAkZN TIL: Until 2005, In-N-Out accommodated burger orders of any size by adding patties and slices of cheese at an additional cost. The limit was later disallowed to anything larger than 4x4 (four patties, 4 slices of cheese) after a famous incident involving a 100x100.
epepL TIL that the Sun is 99.86% of all mass in our solar system. Every other planet, asteroid, and comet only adds up to 7/50th of a single percent.
Rbk1 TIL that Mexico City has more museums than any other city in the world.
M7rJm TIL that Lewis Carroll's (author of Alice in Wonderland's) real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and he was a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.
lodNa TIL That in July of 2000, the Taliban banned growing Poppies in Afghanistan, and succeeded in reducing production by 99%. This success was short lived however, ending when the Taliban was overthrown by the United States. Afghanistan poppies now account for roughly 90% of the global heroin trade.