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TIL: You cannot fly with Samsung Galaxy Note 7 per TSA

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EgGxX TIL a man surnamed Nguyễn created a native script for Vietnamese in the 1840s, just before the French invaded and forced the widespread adoption of a romanized writing system
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Z8Lda TIL Apple never paid a dime to the inventor of the computer mouse
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