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TIL Whenever you fly abroad, you give your implicit consent for someone to inspect your Laptop and similar devices and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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4XXgN TIL that Skittles are currently made by the chewing gum company, called Wrigley.
4XAo6 TIL Werner Forssmann, a physician, risked his own life to show that cardiac catheterization could work. He cut a hole in his arm and inserted a catheter into a vein, not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein. He was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Lk0jd TIL The cleaning up of WW1 battlefields is still ongoing and some estimate it will take 300-700 more years to complete. However there are also some areas which are so toxic 99% of animals and plant life cannot survive.
5Yb8D TIL about Paul Hunt, a gymnast best known for his comical performances of female gymnast routines in silly outfits.
oBo8r TIL that the mother of Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers) was murdered in 1983 when he was just 15 years old. in 2015, he released a documentary called Mourning Son, addressing his mother's murder as well as his battle with addiction subsequent to her death.