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TIL 2 people are buried on the Georgia’s Savannah Airport runway where hundreds of planes land every day

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XvB8 TIL: The word ‘Freelance’ comes from 1820 novel ‘Ivanhoe’. It meant a mercenary knight with no allegiance who offered his services in exchange for money.
4XPbg TIL that a cougar has over 80 different names including: mountain lion, panther and puma!
Br9gD TIL about Dick Assman, a Canadian gas station employee whose name propelled him to celebrity status in North America for four months in 1995
BrXpy TIL that a Hong Kong couple earned a US$330,000 profit in nine months… by reselling a parking space.
DWNP TIL on August 6, 1970, Disneyland was invaded by 300 long-haired people called “Yippies” who caused a ruckus in the park in effort to bring attention to the evils of capitalism and the ongoing war overseas and to flaut Disney’s dress code policies