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TIL that tear gas is illegal for use in war but legal for domestic riot control

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PY8Gn TIL before 9/11 there were only 16 people on the no-fly list. As of 2013 there are over 47,000 people now on the no-fly list.
x6lNw TIL Althea Gibson was appointed New Jersey's athletic commissioner in 1976. Gibson was the first woman in the country to hold such a position but resigned after one year due to a lack of autonomy in her role stating she did not wish to simply be a figurehead.
nYA9 TIL that Michel Siffre, a French scientist, contributed to the understanding of the endogenous biological clock, also called circadian clock, by staying two months cloistered in the abyss of Scarasson without time cues on a glacier from July 1962.
yVvKw TIL that astronauts have been allowed to vote from space since 1997
R5w41 TIL In December, the USA became 386,000 sq. miles bigger below the sea's surface. America's extended continental shelf (the shallow waters around its coast) has increased in seven areas.