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TIL that the town of Alvira, PA was purchased by the DOD during WW2 & all its residents displaced. They built about 150 bunkers to housed munitions. Today you can find remaining bunkers in State Game Lands 252. (Wear blaze orange!)

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KYGnR TIL: Phil Seddon, is a zoologist and former chair of the De Extinction Task Force, which determines which animals can ethically be brought back without harming the ecosystem. Through advances in cloning and with evolutionary molecular biologist Dr. Beth Shapiro, it is close to fruition.
OGLE4 TIL - Sydney has a suburb called "Dee Why" - It remains unclear why.
neNKb TIL it's only called an acronym when you pronounce the abbreviation as a real word (ex. NASA). Otherwise it is known as an initialism (ex. FBI).
5V00p TIL Thomas Edward Fitzpatrick, nicknamed Tommy Fitz, was an American pilot known for two intoxicated flights where he flew from New Jersey and landed on the streets of New York City.
rN4PM TIL that people from Swedish municipalities on the southern border with Norway are allowed to use the state-of-the-art hospital right across the border in Kalnes, Norway in emergencies and births, which is much closer to them than any hospital in Sweden.