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TIL 7.5 percent of each US domestic airline ticket price goes to federal tax

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VE8k TIL a Japanese comedian was tricked into a real-life “Truman show” when he accepted a job which (unbeknownst to him) would lock him into an apartment, naked and cut off from everything and film him, without his knowledge. He gained possessions only thru entering hundreds of sweepstakes.
O6xX TIL In the USA Ice Cream has to have milkfat. So Vegan Ice Cream cannot be called Ice Cream
PYxNV TIL Heart transplant recipients often report changes in temperament or aesthetic taste which parallel traits of their donor, going as far as pursuing the same hobbies as and adopting the donor's musical tastes.
9wvGm TIL about Jean-Marc Boivin. He was the first person to paraglide from the summit of Mount Everest!
9wZWr TIL in 1996, some characters were changed on the children's literacy program "The Letter People". Instead of vowels being all female characters and consonants being all male characters, a change was made to make half the letters male and half of them female. Junk food references were also replaced.