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TIL there’s a website where you can see the progress of removing the Costa Concordia

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BOgK TIL that North Korea has a policy of mandatory voting to elect its legislature…but each ballot has only a single candidate on it.
nWGmP TIL Beryl Markham, a British-born Kenyan aviator, adventurer, and author, was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west (1936). Her memoir, West with the Night, was lauded by Hemingway and is celebrated for its lyrical writing, tales of African landscapes and flying escapades
0d8jp TIL during the making of "Jurassic Park," the terrifying sounds of the velociraptors were created by recording mating tortoises for their communication barks and using horse and goose sounds for breathing and hissing, respectively.
yQPee TIL that the reason that school buses and other safety conscious vehicles stop at all railroad crossings stems from an accident in 1938 that killed 25 children.
OoMOa TIL that during WWI, London was protected by massive lengths of steel cables suspended from observation balloons to guard against air raids. These "balloon aprons" forced pilots to fly above their range or too low to avoid AA fire.