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TIL there's an airport in Amsterdam that uses landscaping to reduce noise

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4XrKR TIL contrary to the popular myth that if a horse's legs were raised on a statue, the rider died in battle, there is no correlation between good position and manner of mortality
m1ORP TIL The creator of Burning Man had never seen the movie 'Wicker Man' before creating the event and is adamant that the movie did not inspire or affect his vision for the festival in any way. It started it as a small, private, solstice celebration on a beach near San Francisco in 1986.
9ZO6 TIL that in medical dramas, about 66% of patients who are administered CPR survive long enough to be discharged from the hospital. In reality, depending on the circumstances CPR has a success rate between 2% and 18%.
wVE6 TIL that Andrew Jackson’s political opponents referred to him as jackass. He adopted the name and used it as his campaign symbol. It would eventually become the symbol of the entire Democratic Party.
QJ4aL TIL that the official divorce complaint of Mary Louise Bell, wife of world-famous physicist Richard Feynman, was that "He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night."