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TIL of Gander New Newfoundland: A place that took care of travelers that were diverted after during 9/11

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4X0pb TIL about the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe. They serve under the Duke of Atholl
VwGB TIL A tortoise, Adwaita, lived to 255. To put it into perspective, he was born before the US existed and his death was announced on CNN. (1750-2006)
kOPnd TIL that 9 out of the 18 songs on Eminem’s “Marshall Mathers LP” make references to killing women.
Wk0eA TIL a pod of orcas hunted cooperatively with early Australian whalers under a "law of the tongue". They would corral and locate prey in return for the tongues and lips of captured whales. The arrangement ended when one of the orcas was accidentally killed.
grEA7 TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, creator of Scientology, made anti-Psychiatry one of its main tenets after a psychiatrist told Hubbard's wife that he had Paranoid Schizophrenia