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TIL barcode scanners scan the white bars not the black ones
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Til that the cargo hold of the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is one foot longer than the entire length of the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk.
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TIL that many of the minor characters from The Wire are played by real-life police officers, politicians and former criminals. In fact, many of the former criminals who act on the show were previously arrested by the real-life cops who act on the show.
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TIL Former US President Jimmy Carter lives in a $167,000 house and shops at the Dollar General
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TIL on his deathbed, Walt Disney scrawled his final words on a piece of paper: "Kurt Russell"
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TIL: There is a tax that called a TIF in Niagara Falls which is entirely voluntary to pay, tourists can ask to have it removed from their bills if they know about it. It pulls in roughly 15 Million a year from tourists with no regulation or tracking on where the money goes after being collected.