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TIL the shortest commercially available flight in the world is between Westray and Papa Westray

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OGj46 TIL since 1919, Social Democratic Party has won every free election in Vienna. They enacted numerous reforms, including public housing program that accommodates quarter of the population
E1QyW TIL in 1981 Dr. Michael Shannon, a pediatrician back then, saved the life of a 3.2 pounds new-born Chris Trokey, who had a 50/50 chance at surviving. In 2011, Trokey returned the favor as a paramedic when he helped saving a seriously injured Dr. Shannon from a car accident.
W7GrA TIL that there was once a device to flatten neckties for ironing them.
1ALV TIL in 1946, a Georgia Tech Graduate Student and amateur photographer rushed to the scene of a hotel fire and snapped a photo that would would win him a Pulitzer. The photo is of a woman jumping from the 11th story to escape the flames, and led to new safety regulations across the US
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