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TIL Qatar Airways allows only one falcon per person as carry-on. It used to be two.

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e07vL TIL Monster Energy has a pH of 2.7 and Rock Star has a pH of 1.5. This means that these drinks are in some cases more acidic than stomach acid and begin rotting teeth and damaging your digestive system almost immediately.
LQGpZ TIL that multitasking can reduce productivity by up to 40% due to cognitive “switching costs” that impair focus and increase errors.
wx76 TIL the “pencil test” was used during Apartheid in South Africa to decide if a child got to grow up white or “coloured” (biracial). If your hair wasn’t curly enough to hold a pencil, you “passed” as white.
eekn TIL a girl obsessed with biting her nails was convince by a hypnotist to let them grow to get more enjoyment from biting them. After letting them grow, she no longer wanted to bite them, thus curing her obsession
mAnx TIL On this day (February 15) 2416 years ago, Socrates was sentenced to death by people of Athens.