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TIL there's a farm in the middle of Japan's Narita Airport

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KoWG TIL in 1930 the US government barred and returned any mail from Spain bearing a new set of stamps, which showed a world-famous painting of a naked woman
XB8Q TIL that some snakes can survive without food for two years at a time by digesting their own hearts.
MP6V TIL Queen Sunanda Kumariratana of Siam (now Thailand) drowned in 1880 in full view of many onlookers – because they were forbidden to touch her, they couldn’t rescue her
1mPV TIL that when Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926, the police asked Arthur Conan Doyle to help find her.
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