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TIL that Houston airport received many complaints about baggage wait times. In response, they moved baggage claim further away so the walk was longer than the wait. The number of complaints dropped.

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JEDv TIL Queen Elizabeth II was one of the first heads of state to send an e-mail. The year was 1976. Her user name was “HME2” or Her Majesty, Elizabeth II.
bA4 TIL that the real Zorro was an Irish genius who strangled himself at the stake before the fires could reach him.
MZP0 TIL The term “meme” was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976. It represents “one unit of cultural transmission.”
grvW9 TIL our sun rotates on it's axis once every ~27 days
x6L8b TIL by 1994 only 10% of Americans had passports and today even Canadians and British have more passports issued than Americans