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TIL: You can bring a cooked or uncooked turkey on a plane. Each airline has its own policy about live turkeys.

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VMgl8 TIL Dubai held a weight loss competition where they gave out 1 gram of gold for every kilogram lost by the participants
4kkNN TIL the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925 was deliberately conceived as a publicity stunt for the town of Dayton, Tennessee. Residents of the town held a protest and threatened to boycott Chattanooga when the trial was initially to be moved there.
pj68 TIL of a WWII German fighter pilot that shot down 352 enemy aircraft and crash landed 14 times, all due to mechanical failure or getting hit by debris from a plane he downed. Credited with having the most aerial combat victories, Erich Hartmann earned the nickname “Black Devil”.
6KKl TIL there is a 42% decrease in air quality throughout the US on 4th July as a result of firework displays
AD19x TIL working too much is an official cause of death in Japan. Called 'Karoshi' which literally means 'overwork death' it became a hot button issue mid to late 1980s, when several high-ranking businessmen who were still in their prime years suddenly died without any previous sign of illness.