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TIL CAPTCHA is an acronym: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”

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v1aL7 TIL in the US if you are delayed by an airline for more than 4 hours because of actions that are within their control (overbooking) you are entitled to 4x the face value of the ticket. Capped at $1300.
Rbp9 TIL Warm water freezes faster than cold, and that scientists still don’t know why.
6EaNw TIL that face mites live in our facial pores, have eight legs like a spider, eat sebum (skin oil), and don't have anuses.
9wvYB TIL in 1998 a man in Hokkaido built a hut and committed suicide by starving himself to death. He kept a detailed diary, writing about his experience up until his death
ZyOB TIL 171 people have vanished off Cruise liners in the last decade.