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TIL that Ontario International Airport (ONT) is not only NOT in Ontario, Canada, it is over 1000 miles away from Canada... in Ontario, California, USA near L.A.

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yypM TIL that the German word for “jack of all trades” (Eierlegende-wollmilchsau) literally means egg-laying-wool-milk-pig thereby describing the perfect animal that provides wool, milk and, finally, bacon.
6EkDJ TIL a sea lion named Rhonda once escaped from an urban zoo in Providence, RI and was never recovered. She made her way through a few park lakes, traveled over two miles on land, scaled small walls and got to a river that flowed into a bay and eventually the ocean.
dxRj TIL The first known photo of a person only happened because a man and his shoe shiner were the only people on a busy street to show up in the 10 minute exposure.
R4N8 TIL that in February 1991, 28 American soldiers died when a Patriot missile didn’t compute two floating point numbers correctly making it miss its intended target (a Scud missile) by 600 meters or 0.372822 miles
bebN TIL that MDMA, better known as Ecstasy, was named and popularized by Father Michael Clegg, a Catholic Priest