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TIL Canadian air traffic controllers ordered pizza delivery in a show of solidarity for at least 35 US air traffic control units working without pay during the 2018–2019 US government shutdown.

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loVE7 TIL: The ceremonial podium from the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was used as an execution site during the area's warfare in the 1990s. Restorers working after the '92-'95 Siege of Sarajevo patched-up the scarred cement and filled in the many bullet holes.
P1eXG TIL there is an emeritus professor of psychiatry whose name is Professor Angst
oB1r8 TIL: The grass at Wimbledon was kept two inches long until 1949 when an English tennis player was bitten by a snake.
69o6w TIL that in 1934 former North Dakota governor William Langer declared independence, declared martial law, and barricaded himself in the governor's mansion following his conviction for defrauding the government. He was elected to the Senate 4 years later.
mYvx TIL that girls who grow up with a stepfather begin menstruating about 1 year earlier than those who grow up with their biological father