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TIL the FAA has a lavatory ashtray as required equipment for all commercial jets

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YvKA TIL in 1999, Ben Stiller made a pilot starring Jack Black as a former astronaut. He was exposed to inappropriate levels of solar energy, giving him superintelligence. And Owen Wilson played Heat Vision, a talking motorcycle.
Zk5p TIL Neanderthals had much better teeth than humans due to having an almost entirely carbohydrate free diet.
AD9Gg TIL an elderly man gained the trust of a Belgian bank by bringing the workers chocolates. He was eventually given VIP access to the bank vault. In 2007, he stole $28 million worth of diamonds and vanished.
Nr1J TIL there is an underground network of Americans who use the internet to abandon adopted children (most adopted from overseas) and this practice is called “adoption distruption” and “private re-homing.”
R7Ba4 TIL Champollion (guy who deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphics) was instructed not to reveal findings contradicting teachings of the Catholic Church. He dated the Tomb of Menofre to the fifth dynasty, pre-dating Noah's flood. According to the Church it could not exist. He took the secret to his grave.