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TIL Faulty coffee machines are one of the most common causes of flight delays.

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7WRb TIL More Intelligent People Are More Likely to Binge Drink and Get Drunk
b9Lj7 TIL Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.
Pjbn TIL the populations of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are 26.3% and 26.8% female, respectively.
Ajad TIL that California’s GDP is $2.5 trillion, meaning it has the 6th largest economy in the world. Canada’s, for example, is only $1.5 trillion.
4jL5 TIL David Bowie used to secretly respond to fans on message boards under the nickname ‘Sailor’.