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TIL that US government spent 900 milion $ for Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques that proved to be fruitless and had no scientific background

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5V9VR TIL that north of Castaic, CA, the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 5 cross over for approximately 5 miles making it one of the only places in America where you drive on the left.
0w1bN TIL that Bouchard a tug boat company, hasn't paid their employees since the beginning of the year, and since some of the vessels are at anchor the USCG won't let the mariners leave. They are stuck at work, and not being paid.
N7xZQ TIL every century, the moon and the sun's gravity add 1.7 milliseconds to the length of a day. When dinosaurs where alive, they had 23-hour days.
gM87b TIL From mid-1700s til 1970s, countries & individual cities had "ugly laws" that deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself to public view."
WBb9 TIL 87% of parents will buy or make Easter baskets for their children—and 81% will then proceed to steal candy from them.