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TIL that blind-from-birth men prefer female figures with the same waist-to-hip ratio (0.7) as sighted men do

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16DwX TIL the liquid ban on planes wasn’t caused by 9/11 but by British MI5, who foiled a 2006 terror plot involving liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.
oBrAE TIL that not all veterans like to be thanked for their service. That some suffer from moral injury and are harmed by our attempts at good will.
j6yQN TIL 12-year-old Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Indian Ocean that killed her mom & 151 others. She had little swimming experience & no life vest. So she clung to a piece of the wreckage & floated in heavy seas for over 9 hours, much of it in darkness, before being rescued.
JYOm1 TIL: Mel Carnahan won the 2000 U.S. Senate election in Missouri against the incumbent, John Ashcroft, despite passing away in a plane crash three weeks before election day.
9YN6 TIL a woman was left with a Chinese accent resulting from a migraine - Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS)