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TIL that a woman once tried to smuggle suitcases made out of 15 kilos of cocaine into Spain.

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PbAw TIL standard evasive procedure for a surface-to-air-missile being directed at a SR-71 Blackbird, was for the plane to simply accelerate and outfly the missile.
61gW TIL Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to send him for more electroshock treatments because he lost so much of his memory he couldn’t even remember his own name. He committed suicide the day after his 36th shock treatment.
7rbJX TIL eating boogers is good for your immune system and teeth.
RGE8 TIL “Confirmation bias” is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.
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