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TIL that you were not required to take off your shoes at airport security & liquids were not banned from flights until 2006

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OGQmX TIL Ben Affleck's directorial debut was a 1993 satirical short film called "I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney".
MeXvb TIL street vendors in East Asia have a very different way of making popcorn than in the West. They put kernels in a rotating steel pressure chamber over an open flame called a "popcorn hammer." Upon opening, all of the kernels pop at the same time with a huge "BOOM" that also serves as advertising.
a86Ry TIL Rob Bottin, the special effects artist for The Thing (1982) was only 22 when he started his work on the film.
pYwBO TIL The expiration dates on plastic water bottles is for the plastic bottles not the water.
wjw8 TIL: As a result of China’s “one child” policy and sex-selection abortions, China has 30+ million surplus single men between age 25-40. That’s more than the combined population of adults in New York and Texas who will never find a mate.