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

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5Y5LD TIL that Sylvester Stallone thinks having the Second Amendment is “like living in the Dark Ages” and has been described as “the most anti-gun person in Hollywood”
LQEVd TIL several people who were in permanent catatonic states as a result of the Spanish Flu later regained full function in the 1960s as a result of treatment with the medicine L-DOPA. Unfortunately the treatment was only temporary and all patients reverted to permanent catatonic states.
WNAB TIL that Versailles’s over 2000 fountains consumed more water per day than the entire city of Paris. To solve the water shortage, the fountaineers would signal each other upon the king’s approach to turn on the fountain. Once the king passed the fountain, it would be turned off again.
gr7n9 TIL that George Washington had two stepchildren but no biological children
pxeN TIL In 1987, the US Army’s Night Stalkers stole an Russian attack helicopter from a desert in Chad