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TIL The TSA Spent $900 Million on Behavior Detection Officers Who Detected 0 Terrorists

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epBvk TIL Ronald Reagan would eat jelly beans to help him quit smoking. He had over 300 thousand jelly beans shipped to the White House each month, he would give them away to visitors and staff regularly. His favorite flavor was black licorice and there are special "Jelly Belly Ronald Reagan" packs.
OG8Wg TIL- "The Pale Blue Dot" photo was taken on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1 nearly 4 billion miles away from our Earth. "That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
OPP6 TIL that spider’s brains are actually so large they overflow into their legs
epl5E TIL that two buttons in WWII RAF uniform can be put together to make a mini compass which indicates towards north
MpRb TIL that touching baby birds will not cause mother birds to abandon them.