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TIL that most airplane seats are blue to alleviate fear and calm anxiety

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BxEx TIL Al Qaeda’s hit list for american politicians didn’t include Joe Biden because they thought he would mess up the presidency so badly as to be helpful towards their cause
BrpQe TIL that Queen Victoria was addicted to cocaine infused chewing gum. She was even believed to have shared some with a young Winston Churchill.
69lYW TIL Frank Lloyd Wright and Georgia O'Keeffe met in 1942 and continued to correspond with one another over the years. Their lives followed parallel arcs—from their births in rural Wisconsin, to finding success in an American metropolis, and refining their craft in isolated southwest desert enclaves.
69ge8 TIL that in 2006, FBI agents attempted to arrest prison guards at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, after having learnt the guards were trading drugs for sex with female inmates. One of the guards opened fire with a personal handgun, killing one agent and wounding another.
JYlGl TIL that Kareem Abdul Jabbar had serious misgivings about attending UCLA and considered transferring to Michigan.