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TIL that pickpockets in Paris successfully take advantage of Americans’ eagerness to sign petitions by using young girls to distract them with environmental petitions

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nWLK9 TIL about an 80' (24.4m) stunt fall before airbags. During filming for a 1975 movie Joe Powell, as stunt double for Sean Connery, performed a stunt as a rope bridge was cut falling 80' (24.4m) onto a pile of mattresses and cardboard boxes
R5ggQ TIL that Pulp in Orange Juice is removed in the process of pasturization, and then re-added later to create the different levels of pulped juices for food safety.
oRN5E Today I learned about Station IX a secret British Special Operations Executive factory making special weapons and equipment during World War II
OoLA1 TIL the US Senate has a desk called the Candy Desk, it has a drawer full of candy and the responsibility of the occupant is to distribute these to other members of the floor
X0e9r TIL that the longest perfectly straight stretch of the U.S. interstate highway system is on I-80 between Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska and is approximately 72 miles (116 km) long.