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TIL that the Iraqi transport minister caused controversy during an inauguration of an airport by claiming that the world's first airport was built 7,000 years ago in Iraq by ancient Sumerians

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6j5J TIL Finland students have no homework and the highest education rating in the world.
dlDj TIL the then unknown writer Franz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his works after his death. Brod didn’t, published them and Kafka became world famous posthumously.
7r6br TIL A man named beneficiaries in his will by picking 70 random names out of a phone book. His estate included a 12-room apartment in Lisbon, a house, a luxury car, two motorcycles, and money in bank accounts. Each beneficiary received several thousand euros.
R5VP6 TIL that in “once upon a studio”. When Mickey speaks to a portrait of Walt Disney, playing in the background was Disney's favorite song: "Feed the Birds”. The producers also got Richard Sherman to record a new version for the film, using the same piano and in the same old office of Walt Disney.
yV7AJ TIL that “The Girl from Ipanema” is the second most recorded song ever.