A year's worth of (weird, revealing, scary) data from the nation's airports

The Transportation Safety Administration isn't merely a government agency. It is also a kind of real-time library, tracking the human folly that plays out at some of the human folly-est places there are: airports. The TSA has now released information from a year's worth of checkpoint-monitoring ... and the information it has presented is, unsurprisingly, folly-filled. (Among the objects confiscated from passengers: swords, bottles of gunpowder, and "more inert grenades than you would ever imagine.")

Below, the TSA's takeaways -- some of them literal -- from a year's worth of airport screenings and confiscations: