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TIL items confiscated by the TSA (including weapons) end up getting sold back to the general public in state-run auctions.

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Y7bQA TIL All passengers and crew aboard National Airlines Flight 2511 from New York to Miami were killed on 6 January 1960 when a bomb exploded aboard the plane in mid-flight. The FBI investigation is still open and no suspects have been named.
LewQ TIL the “soap” in soap operas comes from household cleaning companies sponsoring shows and controlling the ads that were shown
Xa8P TIL that there was a study that says short men have sex more often
dk8d TIL that it’s illegal to pee in an elevator in Singapore, and that some elevators have a Urine Detection Device which detects urine odors, sets off an alarm, and close the elevator doors until the police arrive
d8and TIL In the longest-running study of gifted children ever, scientists followed 5,000 kids who tested in the top one percent of intelligence for over four decades. It suggests that early cognitive intelligence has more effect on success than deliberate practice or outside factors