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TIL that Houston airport received many complaints about baggage wait times. In response, they moved baggage claim further away so the walk was longer than the wait. The number of complaints dropped.

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vPX4L TIL that French schools used to assign 'Le Symbole' to kids caught speaking minority languages(i.e. Breton, Occitan, Basque, etc). The only way to rid oneself of the symbol is to snitch on a fellow student. At the end of the day, the student with the symbol will receive some form of punishment
4gw6 TIL Dick Cheney Flunked out of Yale University Twice
gKmb TIL Floyd Mayweather accused Manny Pacquiao of wanting to fight him due to money problems. Pacquiao responded by challenging him to donate ALL their proceeds from their fight (estimated to bring in around $400,000,000) to charities around the world. Mayweather said no.
1aA68 TIL about Ben Taylor, who in 2017 responded to what sounded like a classic "Nigerian prince" scam on Facebook, and ended up befriending the man and raising thousands for a poor community in Liberia.
KLdw TIL That Cats go crazy around catnip because it contains a chemichal that is found in dominant female cat’s piss.