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

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OoGmg TIL Bedbugs were almost eradicated but are on the rise in the United States.
jl4M TIL: that Sarah Cecilie Finkelstein discovered that she was a missing child after seeing herself on the back of a milk carton
DG1P TIL Henry Ford was an honorary Nazi and his first company later became Cadillac
aoyb TIL a 37-yo German woman who suffered an accident at the age of 20 that left her blind also had Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personalities). One of her personalities, a teenage boy, can see.
wLgpE TIL: The Oval Office's current desk, a gift from Queen Victoria, was modified by FDR who had a carved front panel added to hide his leg braces. It has also been raised with a base because presidents from JFK to Reagan kept banging their knees against the underside.