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TIL the game Chinese Checkers is neither Chinese nor Checkers

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GaBj TIL that Paris airport of Orly uses software called DECOR, which is employed in takeoffs & landings & runs on Windows 3.1, an operating system that was released in 1992. The airport only has three specialists who are familiar with DECOR. An upgrade has been scheduled for sometime between 2017-2021.
X0eYX TIL in 2006 a Romanian man, Florin Fodor, was charged for trying to illegally immigrate to Canada multiple times. He was first deported from Canada in 2000, and then in 2006 he attempted to enter again by sailing from Greenland to Nunavut in a 20 foot fiberglass boat.
gRa4 TIL the famously anti-gay Harlem preacher Pastor Manning, who’s known for vitriolic anti-LGBT hate speech, is in massive debt. An organization that provides shelter for homeless LGBT youth is raising money to buy the building his church is housed in to open an additional shelter at that location.
8aZNX TIL That Some Sea Slugs Can Remove Their Own Heads and Regrow Their Bodies to escape parasites
KOn4 TIL large penises were considered to be grotesque and comical in ancient Greek times.