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

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l7KJ7 TIL that Qatar has sequenced the genes of around 10% of its citizens, as part of a genetic screening program as 26.7% of Qatari marriages are with first cousins.
e0dXb TIL Thanks to a Swedish tax law regarding costumes, ABBA’s stage clothes were outlandishly-designed on purpose. As long as they were impractical for everyday wear, the group’s outfits were tax-deductible.
aweB0 TIL: In 1672 the Dutch Prime Minister became so unpopular that a mob murdered him & his brother and then cooked and ate them.
QNXbX TIL that the average cumulus cloud (typically seen in fair weather) contains 1.1 million pounds of water droplets, that's the equivalent weight of five adult blue whales (the largest animal on the planet)
jBgn TIL in 2010, the US Air Force built a supercomputer out of 1700 Playstation 3s.