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TIL Many nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to collect residents with dementia who try to leave.

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grXjy TIL The longest scheduled commercial flight was logged by Air Tahiti Nui in March and April 2020 when it could not land in LAX for refueling due to travel restrictions. The flight from Papeete to Paris covered 9,765 miles, compared to the current longest route between NYC and Singapore (9,537 mi).
DQPVg TIL that at BYU, you can only have the opposite gender over if it’s before 10 pm. And you have to keep the door open. And you both have to keep at least one foot on the floor at all times.
P1mn TIL that 94% of languages are spoken by 6% of the world’s population
AeK4 TIL Charlie Chaplain was slandered, investigated, and banned from the USA in 1952 by the FBI for openly criticising War and Xenophobia. It would be 20 years before he was allowed to return.