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TIL The TSA does not perform background checks on employees

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xVPw7 TIL that the pecan industry's success is due to a slave named Antoine, who was a gardener and expert grafter of pecan trees. In 1876, nuts from Antoine's trees were displayed alongside Bell's telephone, the Remington typewriter, Heinz ketchup, and the right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty.
KOV6 TIL that in Fight Club, the line “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school” was a replacement for “I want to have your abortion”. Fox objected to use of the original line but wanted to go back after reading the new line but couldn’t because of the deal they made with David Fincher.
w1RJ TIL Creationists’ favourite anti-evolutionist challenge to the existence of transitional fossils used to be the lack of transitional forms in the evolution of the whales; until those forms were found.
e0dpk TIL that during the 16th and 17th century the majority of people believed Birds of Paradise lived in the skies and fed only on air and dew.
LkQjV TIL NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia banned pinball in the 1940s as gambling that emptied the "pockets of schoolchildren in the form of nickels and dimes given them as lunch money". All pinball machines were rounded up and smashed dramatically by the mayor, before being dumped into city rivers.