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TIL $5.60 of each plane ticket funds the TSA

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bE0Q TIL Aborigines were chained by the neck and force fed salt to help explorers find waterholes in arid Western Australia
OyOX TIL China is unblocking Facebook, Twitter, and other censored sites at a special Free Trade Zone in Shanghai so “foreigners will feel like at home”
d8XYj TIL Fearful-Avoidant adults are torn between a desire for intimacy and a fear of sharing their emotions. They want close relationships, but have trouble trusting others
PYZxg TIL Roughly four thousand years ago an Ancient Egyptian official, Baqet III, had depictions of jugglers engraved within his tomb.
m1jNo TIL of a form of refrigeration that does not need moving parts and cacn run on a cup of kerosene