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TIL A passenger was turned away from two flights because he was wearing 10 layers of clothing to avoid extra luggage fees

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xBbg TIL when Kurt Cobain committed suicide, then-President Clinton asked Eddie Vedder (who happened to be visiting the White House the next day) if he should address the nation about it. Vedder advised no, because of concerns it might spur copycat incidents.
NWNe TIL that in 1991 World Table Tennis Championships North and South Korea participated as a unified team under the name “Korea” to beat the “unbeatable” Chinese team
jBpa TIL ‘Public School’ has the Opposite Meaning in the U.K. compared to the U.S.
gM4M8 TIL that functioning ‘mechanical gears’ were seen in nature for the first time. Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.
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