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

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0dMZ5 TIL Guanxi (关系, guānxi) is a Chinese term for an individual's social network of mutually beneficial personal and business relationships. Guanxi relationships are almost never established purely through formal meetings but must also include spending time to get to know each other.
WkjZB TIL In the 1700's, Ex-Slave Tom Molineaux Literally Fought his Way to Freedom, Becoming America's First International Boxing Superstar
5VmD9 TIL in 1912, an Irish physicist invented the optophone which was a device that was intended to allow blind people to hear "light". It was adapted to translate written words to sounds.
kOmNW TIL that a glass ball will bounce higher than a rubber ball!
GYOWG TIL That mount Everest became so popular that in 2019 there was a 12 hours long line of around 200 people at the very peak, with a few people dying because of it