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TIL Airport runway numbers actually indicate direction on a compass

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P1ONJ TIL Brian Doyle-Murray, who played Clark Griswald's boss in Christmas Vacation, was only 44 years old when the movie was released in 1989.
v1BP4 TIL about the Bhopal Disaster, a chemical leak from a pesticide plant in India that killed and injured more people than Chernobyl.
bMOZ TIL: If you commit suicide in Japan by jumping onto an oncoming train or killing yourself in an apartment building, the train or building company can/will sue your family for clean up fees, loss of income and negative publicity brought on by your suicide.
Y71AA TIL A group of raccoons is called a Gaze.
9YaXp TIL that the first person to use a pacemaker and the doctor who implanted it were born in the same year, with the patient outliving the doctor.