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TIL Airline food tastes bad because the low humidity and pressurized environment numbs our taste buds.

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5Vgkp TIL A Chinese Emperor escaped an assassination attempt by running in circles around a pilar
6xl8 TIL Iceland is the only country without mosquitoes.
OoGA7 TIL Alexander Litvinenko, before his death as a result of mysterious poisoning, had accused the Russian government of perpetrating a false flag terror attack against Russian civilians, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya.
XEnQk TIL Winston Churchill suffered a landslide defeat in the 1945 United Kingdom general election following the war
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