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TIL in 1989 fifteen major airlines would not show the scene in Rain Man where Raymond Babbitt talks about aviation safety.

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olpK TIL Chinese censorship has banned Big Yellow Rubber Ducks, Leaders doing Gangnam Style, Penis shaped buildings, Pictures of Empty Chairs, and TV shows that feature Time Travel.
vP8B4 TIL the first global attempt to boycott a modern Olympics was in 1936 when they were being hosted in far right Nazi-controlled Germany. Anti-fascist people in Barcelona were set to host an alternative called "Olimpíada Popular" but it was cancelled due to a far right power grab in Spain at that time
a896L TIL of Frigg Fjord, the northernmost settlement in human history. In northern Greenland, it is 544km (338mi) farther north than Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Inhabited even in winter approximately 2400 years ago, inhabitants would have spent 139 straight days with the sun below the horizon.
KOrEw TIL The World Mosquito Project scientists cultivate and release mosquitoes infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia. The bacterium is passed down to future generations. The bacterium appears to block mosquitos from transmitting arboviruses (dengue, chikungunya & yellow fever) & Zika
Me1eK TIL the brown paths of worn down grass are called "desire paths"