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TIL that you can bring pizza on a flight as carry or checked item

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mxdBx TIL that red pandas are more closely related to seals and walruses than to actual pandas.
Yo7G TIL John Landis, director of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, violated child labor laws when he hired 6-year-old and 7-year-old actors for the Twilight Zone movie. Both of the child actors, along with actor Vic Morrow, were decapitated by helicopter blades when a scene they were filming went wrong.
l9KK TIL By the time they reach high school, nearly 20 percent of all American boys will be diagnosed with ADHD.
awK7A TIL that Crimean Gothic, the last survivor of the East Germanic language group (Including the Gothic of the tribes who sacked Rome, and Vandalic) is attested to being spoken in Crimea as late as the 19th century, a full 900 years after the rest of the language subfamily died out
4XwBw TIL that the loudest bird in the world (the White Bellbird) can scream at 125 decibels -- about as loud as an ambulance siren. Courtship consists of the male screaming directly into the female's face.