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TIL Eastern Airlines closed so suddenly in 1991 that thousands of passengers and crew were left stranded across the country as their connecting flights, or return flights, were suddenly cancelled.

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69e48 TIL that the Irving Family is the single largest landowner in Maine with 1,267,792 million acres owned, and they've also planted more than 1 billion trees across the United States and Canada
D1rrp TIL the Aurora Borealis makes sounds
wLg8P TIL during the 2019 Mozambique peace-accord signings, Sid Meier's Civilization IV's theme song, Baba Yetu, was played in the background.
0wdjM TIL the ampersand (&) is actually “and per se and”, and the character itself originated from the latin word et (and) turned into a single figure
lo1lK TIL: about Tim Ballard, who left his job as a special agent for Homeland security and created an organization focusing solely on child Trafficking. To this day, he has saved 1000s' of victims and has arrested over 750 Traffuckers. and oh Yea, he also writes books