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TIL Some airplane cushions have charcoal filters in them to stealthily hide farts due to the change in air pressure

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Bpxd TIL Your car remote can lose synchronization with the car and become useless if a button is pressed more than 256 times when the remote is out of range.
OGBdY TIL about Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. One of the earliest women's football clubs in England. They played from 1917 to 1965, playing 833 games, winning 759, drawing 46, and losing 28. In 1920, Dick, Kerr Ladies defeated a French side 2–0, that was the first international women's association football game.
jNAxn TIL: Ethiopia is several years behind the rest of the world. Since the religious country is so strongly influenced by the Coptic Orthodox Church, it still adheres to the traditional calendar of that church, which is seven years behind the rest of the world. Currently it's November 2011 there.
Z8yj4 TIL Donnie Yen (the blind monk in Star Wars: Rogue One) was once leaving a Hong Kong nightclub with his girlfriend when they were attacked by a gang who had been bothering them earlier in the night. Donnie hospitalised 8 of them.
7pr7 TIL Jackie Chan used to carry multiple guns and even a grenade to protect himself and other artists from the triad in the 80s and 90s