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TIL $5.60 of each plane ticket funds the TSA

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5mkP TIL the largest political party in Belgium is committed to the long-term breakup of the country
OGvxL TIL that during the First and Second World Wars there was a lot of debate regarding whether to attack defenceless enemy pilots and aircrew after they had escaped their stricken aircraft and were descending by parachute. (It's now treated as a war crime under the 1949 Geneva Conventions.)
b9RPj TIL that the origin of the idiom "Red Herring" was itself a red herring. It was originally stated that red herring were used to help hounds sniff out prey. It's misleading because red herring were actually used to train horses and were only used if there were no dead cats available instead.
71Pp TIL Dust from the Sahara desert has produced a massive carbon sink in the Bahamas, and humans could mimic nature by artificially repeating the process elsewhere
m14vo TIL that the Beatles toured North America in 1964, playing 32 shows at 26 different venues in just 33 days. During the tour they made about $1 Million, which would be about $7.5 Million today.