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TIL Almost All Canadian IATA Airport Codes Start With The Letter "Y"

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EByo TIL The word “coffee” was mentioned in Civil War diaries more than war, bullet, canon, mother, and Lincoln. Coffee was so important to the Union war effort the Sharps Rifle Company manufactured a carbine with a coffee grinder built in the butt stock of the gun.
BgapD TIL the 1904 Olympic Marathon only 14 men crossed the finish: one after hitchhiking, one after napping, and one—the winner—after drinking rat poison
aw9yL TIL that botulism in a dented can of canned black olives killed 18 people in Ohio heralding the emergence of food safety regulation.
neJvP TIL that disabled people in the UK can get a universal key which works with disabled toilets around the whole of the UK (around 9,000+ toilets)
kJPQE TIL that between 2004 and 2017, the number of U.S. men who read for pleasure dropped by 40%, women by 29%.