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TIL about mole people in Vegas tunnels.

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Gj9J TIL The woman that started Mothers Day in the USA wished she had never started the Day because the commercialism behind it got so out of control
N7M0N TIL that the construction of Brandenburg, the new airport in Berlin, is so behind schedule they will have to scrap 750 display screens which are now at the end of their life having being switched on for six years. Not a single flight has yet left the airport, and it may not open until beyond 2020.
OoQX1 TIL: Swifts can spend up to 10 months in the air without landing. They can eat, sleep, and mate all while flying.
naXP TIL there’s a restaurant in Pittsburgh that only serves take-out cuisine from a country the US is in conflict with. It rotates every 6 months. Right now they serve Cuban. Next up is Korean.
8Opa TIL that three 17th century Qing dynasty era vases valued at 500,000 pounds were shattered at a Cambridge museum when a visitor descending a staircase tripped on his shoelace and fell into them.