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TIL Airport runway numbers actually indicate direction on a compass

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4kkeg TIL about Speibecken. A basin for vomitting installed in men's washrooms at pubs in Germany.
Oo9Ae TIL that the moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body is called Terminator
d86DK TIL of Íslendingabók (the Book of Icelanders), an online geneaological database formed for anti-incest purposes and because of the fact that all native Icelanders are somehow related.
W75eX TIL that Billy Mitchell sued Cartoon Network for infringing his likeness with the Regular Show character GBF, a giant floating head who cheats at arcade games. Mitchell's lawsuit was dismissed, in part because "when GBF loses his title, the character literally explodes, unlike Plaintiff".
gMnaX TIL the Japanese bullet train system is equipped with a network of sensitive seismometers. On March 11, 2011, one of the seismometers detected an 8.9 magnitude earthquake 12 seconds before it hit and sent a stop signal to 33 trains. As a result, only one bullet train derailed that day.