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TIL: 7.4% of Switzerland's exports is blood.
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TIL about Air Sinai - a highly secretive paper airline flying unmarked EgyptAir jets between Cairo and Tel Aviv. It was established as part of the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, but the animosity between Arabs and Israelis following the Intifada resulted the airline 'hiding' its operations.
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TIL after Nebraska passed a Safe Haven law meant to decrease the number of “dumpster babies,” people started abandoning their teenage children. One father abandoned 9 of his 10 kids.
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TIL Robert Moses, the extremely powerful New York City urban planner, hated the idea of poor people lowering the tone at the seaside, so he built low bridges over his parkways to ensure that only cars, not buses, could make the trip.
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TIL that adults have protective services too, not just kids.
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TIL there is a Native American tribe in Mexico that are known to be able to run up to 430 miles without stopping.