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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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Ooo6 TIL “Ghost in the Shell”’s Japanese title translates to “Mobile Armored Riot Police”; the English title was created in translation
d89Dd Til Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another
neVyb TIL That Pol Pot killed people who had glasses or if they spoke foreign language, just because he thought they were smart.
pYdyG TIL that when Wyoming was going through the process of becoming a US state in 1890, the state demanded that women be given the right to vote. The US Congress denied this request. The state replied by saying that they'd "remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women"
4koNa TIL The United States spent $20.2 billion a YEAR on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan.