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TIL you are allowed to take your own personal parachute on a commercial flight as long as it meets certain requirements

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e01A4 TIL that Canada still has 91% of the forest cover that existed at the beginning of European settlement
YpA0P TIL that until 1964, Mr. Potato Head toys were meant to be used with real potatoes. The toy was shipped with “plastic facial pieces,” which had sharp ends that had to be forcibly inserted into a potato (not included), and presented both choking and stabbing hazards for small children.
Zp5Oo TIL Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez took the stage name Martin Sheen in part as tribute to Fulton Sheen, a Catholic Bishop he admired.
GYQJ1 TIL: NYC yellow cabs and livery cars have a 4.5-inch amber flasher (aka a "trouble light") on the rear. Its serves as a way to alert outsiders that they are feeling threatened. It's like their version of a silent alarm banks use.
yQgvX TIL about Giovanni de Ventura, a municipal plague doctor for the town of Pavia in late XV century Italy. He wasn't to require fees from treating patients, as the city of Pavia provided generously for him in terms of salary. He may also have donned the "beak doctor" attire.