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TIL The shortest commercial flight in the world is in Scotland. The flight goes between two islands in Orkney, Scotland, and lasts just 47 seconds.

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9Y8yG TIL Ben, from Ben & Jerry's ice cream, has no sense of smell and gets his "food enjoyment" from texture. This is why the brand puts chunky ingredients in their icecream.
eYpb TIL when Mao Zedong visited Soviet in 1949 Stalin had special toilets installed in order to secretly collect and analyze Mao’s excrement
lo6aA TIL in 2008, a Mad Cow Disease beef recall was impelled by a whistleblower who took illegal, undercover footage of the sick cows.
GYOa1 TIL children and pregnant women will absorb more consumed lead (50% of volume) than a non-pregnant adult (5-10%) because children's and pregnant women's bodies have a higher demand for calcium (and Pb readily substitutes for Ca).
xVZOD TIL: The Causes Behind the World becoming more Destabilised, has little to do with Race but alot to do with Bad Business.