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TIL to deflect flight noises from the Amsterdam Airport, an 80-acre park in the shape of perfectly aligned furrows with high ridges in between (inspired by old farming techniques and Chladni patterns), was built. Finished in October 2013, the park cut the noise level in half almost immediately.

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RMla TIL that when boarding a train, a man who was mistaken for a terrorist suspect was held down by police and shot in the head seven times at point blank range. He was innocent.
4XrDX TIL that Olivia De Havilland, who in 1939 starred in Gone with the Wind, is still alive. Born on the same day as the Battle of the Somme started, she is at 103 years old the oldest living Academy Awards winner.
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