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TIL Denver International Airport (Colorado, USA) occupies 52.4 square miles (136 sq km), making DIA larger in land area (excluding water) than the US cities of Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.

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KwM9 TIL the children’s book “Love You Forever” was about the author’s two dead babies.
e0pN6 Today I learned of Sergeant Reckless, a War Horse who served during the Korean War and was responsible for resupplying multiple frontline units 51 times in a single day in 1953.
rR5dw TIL of Thomas Francis Meagher, born 1823. He was an Irish nationalist, got exiled to Tasmania, escaped to New York, visited Costa Rica, fought in the Civil War, became governor of Montana, and died when he fell off a boat at age 43.
9gPp TIL a fully loaded C-130 Hercules can carry $2.4b in cash. In 2003, twenty-one shipments of American cash totaling 363 tonnes were flown into Iraq. $6.6b of that money is totally unaccounted for and could be the largest cash theft in American history.
oBwMA TIL that the average African-American has 73.2% African, 24% European and 0.8 native American ancestry