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TIL that flight way points have been set up around some airports for humorous combinations. Heading into Kansas gets you SPICY BARBQ TERKY SMOKE RIBS

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bgOa TIL President Bush’s AIDS initiative has saved over a million people’s lives.
BrlGb TIL, Sperm whales, the biggest toothed whale on Earth, dont actually have teeth in the top jaw. They instead have sockets in the upper jaw that the bottom teeth fit neatly in to.
gakX TIL Apartheid South Africa had a secret weapons program to develop germs that would only kill blacks or lower their birthrate.
yyMX TIL Cambridge Bay, Canada, has no cars but GOOGLE responded to a proposal by a resident to include Arctic communities in Street View in order to “educate the rest of the world.” He used a tricycle fitted with a camera system.
4XanJ TIL: In 1610 Galileo used a telescope to discover that Venus goes through phases similar to the Moon, a revolutionary observation that “ultimately helped to deliver a deathblow to the long-held concept of an Earth-centered universe.”