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TIL of ‘The Terminal Man’ who lived in a Paris airport for 18 years.

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Z87ja TIL that in 1920, The Maharaja (King) of Alwar (India) used Rolls Royce cars as garbage collection vehicles, after facing discrimination at the Rolls Royce Showroom when he went there to buy cars.
xVG57 TIL much of Vivaldi’s music was originally performed by an all-female orchestra at the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage and music school for girls in Venice.
OGVy4 TIL a hyperandrogenist, Olympic runner, Caster Semenya, underwent gender verification tests to prove to officials she was “female”. Tests showed she had no womb or ovaries & had internal testes.
xk7g TIL American Evangelicals help fund violent anti-gay movement in Uganda
loNd1 TIL its safer to do a 360 on short final at 100' AGL in to Mogadishu in a Boeing 727 than it is to fly over the city.