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TIL flights from Los Angeles to Seoul Korea fly over Alaska.

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epQRg TIL about the Eliza Armstrong case where journalist W.T. Stead bought a 13-year-old girl to expose sexual slavery in Victorian England. His reports helped pass the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act raising the age of consent from 13 to 16, but Stead was jailed three months for abduction.
NWe1 TIL the members of The British Royal Family aren’t allowed to play Monopoly because of how vicious the competition gets.
XmEQ TIL that Box Tops for Education has raised over $400 million and is one of America’s best known campaigns
65Gm TIL that two of the moons in our solar system (Ganymede & Titan) are actually larger than the planet Mercury.
1o9P TIL that NY’s tap water has tiny crustaceans in it to combat mosquito larvae in the water supply. As such, water in NY is not Kosher.