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TIL Henry Kissinger was an Honorary Member of The Harlem Globetrotters

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awmbM TIL about Air Sinai - a highly secretive paper airline flying unmarked EgyptAir jets between Cairo and Tel Aviv. It was established as part of the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, but the animosity between Arabs and Israelis following the Intifada resulted the airline 'hiding' its operations.
NGne TIL That Johnny Knoxville of Jackass got inspiration for his stunts by watching episodes of Tom and Jerry
A184 TIL that caterpillars form ‘processions’ of up to 300 insects in a row, mimicking a snake so as to avoid being picked off by predators
R7Dv7 [TIL] Some spiders are master recyclers. Orb-weavers remove their webs every morning by eating the silk. This way, protein from the silk is never wasted. They hide from predators all day and make a new web at night. I saw this myself this morning at on my balcony!
4PXb TIL Winston Churchill once defined tact as “the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such as way that they look forward to the trip.”