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TIL Delta Airlines has a “Parallel Reality Zone” in the Detroit Airport that allows customers to see their personal flight informations AND ONLY THEIR FLIGHT information on the same screen and the same time.

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5PlD TIL the word ‘paparazzi’ is derived from the Italian term for a very large mosquito.
Z8mPG TIL that in 2006, some army units used Silly String to check enemy encampments for trip wires. Before entering a building, soldiers would squirt the string across the room. If it fell to the ground, it was safe. But if it hung in the air, they knew the room had trip wires.
p6Lb TIL on April 1, 1980, BBC news ervice “reported” that the Big Ben will get a digital readout, and that the clock hands will be given to the first four listeners to call. Later on, BBC received a massive amount of phone calls from angry protestors, and ended up spending several days to apologize.
m1eGy TIL that Triton, Neptune's largest moon, was discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1846. It’s big enough to be rounded by its own gravity, has a thin atmosphere, and is the only large moon in the Solar System that orbits opposite to its planet’s rotation.
l7oxG TIL the Filair Let plane crash: Caused by an escaped juvenile crocodile that had been smuggled in a cabin bag. The passengers were so frightened they all ran away from the croc to the front of the cabin, altering the weight distribution making the plane uncontrollable. All but 1 person on board died