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TIL Coffins are given priority over any other luggage on Airplanes

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jNr0M TIL The idea that eating carrots helps you see in the dark was a lie invented by the British Airforce in WW2, in order to explain how British air raids were so successful in the dark without tipping the Germans off on the existence of radar.
Ojy6 TIL that before the 1900s, women didn’t start having periods until much later in their adolescence, as in late teens or even their 20s
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