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  • 2 weeks ago | dailypassport.com | Michael Nordine

    There’s a reason entire websites are devoted to helping you book your flight: Airlines make it intentionally confusing. They are businesses, after all, and their goal is to make as much profit as possible. In an effort to do so, airlines may employ a number of subtle strategies on the booking page to encourage customers to spend more, many of which are rooted in actual psychology.

  • 3 weeks ago | dailypassport.com | Michael Nordine

    No matter where you travel, you’ll find every culture does things a little differently. And while many American customs have been replicated elsewhere, just as many seem strange and, well, foreign to our friends across the globe. Here are five customs that may confuse locals on your next trip abroad. In the grand scheme of things, Americans are quite friendly.

  • 3 weeks ago | interestingfacts.com | Michael Nordine

    We tend to think of space as cold and dark, but that’s only because most stars are light-years away from the pale blue dot we call home. The universe is actually quite bright on the whole, and its color has been given an appropriately celestial name: “cosmic latte.” In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University determined the shade after studying the light emitted by 200,000 different galaxies. They held a contest to give the result — a kind of creamy beige — its evocative moniker.

  • 1 month ago | dailypassport.com | Michael Nordine

    Next time you find yourself in New Jersey, don’t try pumping your own gas — it’s not just a faux pas, but actually illegal. That has been the case since the Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act was passed in 1949. “Because of the fire hazards directly associated with dispensing fuel,” the law reads, “it is in the public interest that gasoline operators have the control needed over that activity.” Though 49 other states allow self service, the Garden State has stuck with its decades-old ban.

  • 2 months ago | dailypassport.com | Michael Nordine

    If you have some cash in your wallet, it was almost certainly printed in one of two locations: the ’s facility in either Washington, D.C., or Fort Worth, Texas. BEP has manufactured the nation’s paper currency since 1862, a process that also includes designing and engraving. However, there’s one notable exception to this rule: the Berkshires. This mountainous, 98-mile stretch of western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut prints its own money.

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