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TIL Americans were forbidden to travel to China until 1979, when President Jimmy Carter made the decision to normalize relations with China

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wLpAW TIL that Reno/Tahoe was the divorce capital of North America in the early 1900s because of its very lax divorce laws and only requiring 24 weeks of residence to file for divorce.
W1EA TIL that in the comics, the Men in Black killed all of their witnesses rather than erasing their memories
pYayO TIL that the longest recorded distance a paper airplane has flown is over 226 feet, achieved by a Japanese engineer in 2012
LQeRP TIL The U.S. Navy estimates that heavy barnacle growth on ships increases weight and drag by as much as 60 percent, resulting in as much as a 40 percent increase in fuel consumption
byJ9 TIL that in 2001, the heavily-indebted airline AirAsia was bought by Tony Fernandes’ company for One Malaysian ringgit (US$0.26) with (40 million MYR) US$11 million worth of debt. He turned the company around and produced profit in a year.