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TIL The TSA does not perform background checks on employees

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8L48 TIL shooting point blank mean shooting in a range where you don’t have to account for gravity
R7KZl TIL during season five of sitcom Happy Days, two spin-offs were planned but never eventuated. One would have followed Potsie and Ralph sharing an apartment, the other focused on singer Leather Tuscadero (Suzi Quatro)
4kp1g TIL Giraffes have purple/blue tongues. Here's 9 facts about it lol.
JYavV TIL that up to 25 percent of cowboys in the West during the later 19th century were black. Former slaves or born into a formerly enslaved family, they worked in an industry that despite facing inevitable racism was a generally less discriminatory than other industries at the time.
d8ZLj TIL that a high school basketball coach was fired after his team won 100-0 because the Catholic school he worked for thought that winning by such a wide margin did not show a “Christlike and honourable approach to competition”.