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TIL $5.60 of each plane ticket funds the TSA

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neJdB TIL Callista Gingrich, Newt's wife, admitted to having a 6 year affair with him while he was previously married. Then she pushed him to have his first marriage annulled by the Catholic Archdiocese on the grounds his previous wife had already been married once. She is the ambassador to the Vatican.
wKjE TIL that the guitarist of the band ‘Phoenix’ was once in a band with friends/future-founders of 'Daft Punk’. They disbanded shortly after receiving a harsh review from a British music magazine in which the reviewer referred to the band’s sound as “a daft punky thrash”.
6EXYX TIL in June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". The shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.
8eml4 TIL the first recorded use of the phrase "any port in a storm" was the 1749 erotic novel "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."
8aLeZ TIL about schizophrenic numbers, which are irrational numbers that display similarities to rational numbers.