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TIL: Wearing a tie may seriously damage your body and eyesight

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kJjGE Today I learned that two 9/11 hijackers got their flight school visa approval letters in the mail... six months after 9/11
p8ALO TIL: The International Space Station orbits about 220 miles above Earth. To put that in perspective, if Earth were the size of a basketball, the space station would be about 1/4 of an inch (<7mm) off the surface.
LQ0pZ TIL that that the world's most expensive coffee is made from animal poop