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TIL in Fucking, Austria, after the residents voted against changing the Town’s name, the mayor stated “Fucking is Fucking—and it’s going to stay Fucking.”

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E1GPP TIL a Georgia teacher who bought a $400 travel insurance policy was rewarded $10,000 because she read the fine print of the contract. After reading to page 7, she saw a “Pays to Read” bit that said the first to email and mention the fine print contest would win 10K.
GAnyg TIL that in 1958, 2 pilots flew a modified Cessna 172 over the desert Southwest for 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes.
awK7A TIL that Crimean Gothic, the last survivor of the East Germanic language group (Including the Gothic of the tribes who sacked Rome, and Vandalic) is attested to being spoken in Crimea as late as the 19th century, a full 900 years after the rest of the language subfamily died out
jNQ4N TIL US cities are losing 36 million trees a year
e5KJ TIL in World War II, during the invasion of the Netherlands, Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard evacuated to Canada. When Princess Juliana’s child was born, the Governor General of Canada declared the Princess’ quarters extraterritorial so that the newborn was eligible for the line of succession.