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TIL that Canada is in talks to bring back the Zeppelin to help traverse the difficult landscape

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V178 TIL there is a blind guy who learned echolocation with such precision he can ride a bike and identify bad parking jobs
ne187 TIL Francis Clifford Smith, of Connecticut, is the world's longest-serving current prisoner, having been imprisoned for more than 70 years since June 7, 1950. In three months he will become the longest-serving prisoner in world history.
6E6yY TIL American Moose and European Elk are the same species and are only named differently due to language errors.
5VM7r TIL that an African warlord ended up homeless in the Netherlands after his case was dropped by the ICC
Oo9EL TIL Control+Alt+Delete was used to log into Windows. According to Bill Gates, there was an option to make a single button for such a command, but the IBM keyboard designer didn’t want to give Microsoft a single button. So Microsoft decided to use “Ctrl+Alt+Del” as a way to log into Windows.