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TIL Richard M. Daley authorized the midnight bulldozing of Meigs Field, a small, downtown, lakefront airport in Chicago. This stranded 16 planes on the ground including several Fire Department helicopters. The FAA fined the city $33,000 for not giving 30 days notice ahead of an airport closure.

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1VZ7 TIL that a Chinese rickshaw puller donated 350,000 yuan to enable more than 300 poor students continue with their studies, by the time he passed away at the age of 93 years.
5Y46R TIL that silent discos are banned in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, for being too noisy
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yD1X TIL “Recovery from anesthesia is not simply the result of the anesthetic ‘wearing off,’ but also of the brain finding its way back through a maze of possible activity states to those that allow conscious experience,” one researcher said. “Put simply, the brain reboots itself.”