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TIL That a Single Casino Dominates the Economy of Saipan.

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YprPG TIL plastic surgeons use cocaine during nose reconstruction. The nose is very sensitive to bleeding so they pat in some powder because it is the only known drug to simultaneously constrict blood flow and numb pain.
B9yK TIL it was assumed Amelia Earhart died 80 years ago(July 2, 1937) after crashing her plane in an attempt to fly around the globe and her remains were lost to deep waters.Due to a skeleton found on an island, an aircraft recovery group now believes she may have lived months as a castaway
VM6b4 TIL that new tires have little rubber hairs on them as a byproduct of the manufacturing process and that those hairs do not have any practical purpose or benefit for the tire.
D1klP TIL that the QWERTY keyboard is deliberately a very inefficient way of typing
N77NE The first black pilot in history Ahmet Ali Çelikten, Ottoman Empire, 1916.