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TIL Eastern Airlines used parts from an airplane crash in other planes, leading to multiple reports from passengers and crew that the plane was haunting them

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8JRX TIL a tax return check is actually money that the government borrowed from you - interest free.
J1rRv TIL North Korea is ranked highest in the world in terms of the percentage of population in slavery, with 10.4 percent (2,696,000 ppl) enslaved as per the Walk Free Foundation's 2018 Global Slavery Index. NK is the only country in the world that has not explicitly criminalized any form of slavery.
N7brM TIL: Birdhouses shouldn't have a perch. - "Stay away from any birdhouse with a perch. Birds don't need them and they only make it easier for predators or unwanted birds to get in."
JjYl TIL that a house subcommittee met to try to eliminate the U.S. $1 bill. Reportedly switching to the $1 coin would save us 4.4 billion dollars over 30 years.
QJB5e TIL in 1677 the Dutch gave away Manhattan for a small Indonesian island