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TIL it is against federal law to deceptively fill a container with less than its capacity

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LkZgP TIL that while Tupperware was invented by Earl Tupper, the Tupperware party was the idea of super saleswoman Brownie Wise
dpJ8 TIL Peyton Manning is number 18 on honor of his brother Cooper, who had to retire in high school due to a spinal injury. His brother, Eli later went on to be the starting quarterback at the same high school, as number 18
1avy4 TIL That the most complicated IED ever seen by the FBI was planted by a disgruntled former Luftwaffe pilot and Gulag prisoner after he lost all his money gambling in a casino. The FBI failed in defusing the bomb and the casino where it was planted was destroyed.
rrY1 TIL that Denver Int'l Airport (at 53 sq miles) is larger than Manhattan, San Francisco & Miami and is the 2nd largest airport in the world.
mxQBv TIL November 14, 1910 Eugene Ely made the first airplane takeoff from a warship in a Curtiss pusher airplane from the cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, VA. Ely later completes the first landing and takeoff from a ship in 1911. His flights marked the beginning of carrier aviation.