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TIL that you can not enter the majority of Arab countries if you have an Israeli stamp on your passport.

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N7nX6 TIL that in 1947, a ship carrying ammonium nitrate exploded, ripping the wings off airplanes flying nearby, launching its 2 ton anchor over a mile and a half away, blowing out windows 10 miles away, decimating the entire port of Texas City and the surrounding areas, killing at least 581 people.
N7weE TIL the Reagan Administration laughed about the AIDS epidemic during three separate press conferences
4yxN TIL that a 2012 paper found evidence of systematic electronic vote rigging in the 2008 US General Election and 2012 Republican Primaries
mVKy TIL that a retired police captain is the co-founder of a group to legalize drugs, and that he makes an ironclad case for it.
GJeG TIL that many countries have built wildlife crossings; structures that allow animals to cross man made barriers. In the US they have been used to protect Mountain Goats in Montana, Spotted Salamanders in Massachusetts, Bighorn Sheep in Colorado, Desert Tortoises, and endangered Florida Panthers