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TIL it’s the FCC that bans cell phone use on airplanes, not the FAA

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NvkJ TIL in order for Coca-Cola to continue to exist, the company had to receive a special exception from the Drug Enforcement Agency to allow them to import coca leaves from Peru and Bolivia in huge amounts. In return, the cocaine in the leaves has to be extracted only to be used to create anesthesia.
QQQX TIL that cats have a non-fatal terminal velocity and as a result have survived falls from airplanes thousands of feet in the air.
GA9nQ TIL of Beer's law, which describes how light attenuates when traveling through a liquid. Named after a German physicist, the property was actually originally observed by a Frenchman looking at wine.
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