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TIL: Miami Beach has banned beachfront hotels from giving out plastic straws

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nen87 TIL that hiccups is the same phenomenon as hypnic jerk (the contraction that makes you wake up suddenly when you're falling asleep). It's called a myoclonic jerk of the diaphragm.
ggE4 TIL that in 2002, Boeing delivered a 767 aircraft to China for use as President Jiang’s “Air Force One.” Chinese test pilots discovered a reported 20-30 extremely sophisticated surveillance devices embedded into sensitive areas of the plane, including the Presidential bedroom.
5YoAP TIL a shade of purple called "rebeccapurple" in web development is a memorial to Rebecca Alison Meyer, daughter of CSS developer Eric Meyer. Rebecca passed away on her sixth birthday from brain cancer.
epegL TIL Seacrest Wolf Preserve in Washington County, Florida gives visitors the opportunity to pet and play with wolves
J1XZB TIL that Audrey Hepburn’s parents were fascists during the 1930s and early 40s. Her mother changed her mind when, living in the German-occupied Netherlands, her brother-in-law was executed for something he didn’t do and her son was deported to a German labor camp.