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TIL a Milwaukee man that lives by the airport painted “Welcome to Cleveland” on his roof.

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W779A TIL when asked about her hometown in Michigan, Madonna said she misses "absolutely nothing" about it because it's filled with "basic, provincial thinking people".
AWvx TIL the band Devo takes their name from their concept of ‘de-evolution’ - the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society.
QJO9M TIL that an absolute legend of a bureaucrat (René Camille) saved countless lives under Nazi occupied France. He consistently sabotaged tabulating machines that IBM were happily supplying to the Nazis to round up 'undesirables' and deliberately staged huge bureaucratic cock-ups. He died in Dachau.
E6Xx TIL 24 out of the 56 countries and states of Africa are in a war or military conflict
v1WV8 TIL about the European Green Belt, an area stretching from Finland to Albania that has a unique ecological wildlife due limited human involvement as it also was the iron curtain border for 50 years.