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TIL that Teflon is the the only known material to which geckos cannot stick on

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78llx TIL that the US Marshals' "Con Air" service will transport non-federal prisoners at a cost of no more than $2,643.
xVyND TIL in February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.
j6JDp TIL there's plastic in my blood. A lot of it.
W7vrd TIL that Scarlet Johansson ultimately didn't get the lead role in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" because David Fincher thought she could provoke enough lust to distract the audience from the film itself
VMr74 TIL 20 people were killed at an Italian ski resort in 1998 when a US Marine Corps aircraft, flying over 1,600 feet below minimum height standards, cut the cable supporting their gondola. The pilot was acquitted of manslaughter, and the United States reimbursed 75% of Italy's victim compensation fund