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TIL Britain has so much cocaine it is now in the drinking water

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5YVrD You know the smell. It’s hard to describe, but the second you step on an airplane, a flood of familiarity flies up your nostrils. Airplane smell is equal parts comforting and off-putting. And it’s actually a little bit dangerous. But what is it exactly?
gn0L TIL scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest living animal.
yQVgv TIL that Sir Richard Branson dislikes the formality of neck ties so much that he often carries around a pair of scissors with him, ready to cut the ties off of unsuspecting tie wearers. He even has a cushion that he keeps at his home on Necker Island made up from the ties of some of his victims.
BvJK TIL that 80% of the world’s painkillers are consumed in the US, and consumption has quadrupled since 1999
Brojr TIL An amusement park in Germany shut down one of its rides after a video showed it resembled a Nazi swastika