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TIL a comedian accidently became a politician in Denmark when his joke political party managed to get a seat in parliament.

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wLXv1 TIL that during the opening ceremony of Ottawa international Airport’s new terminal in 1959 a USAF F-104 Starfighter did a supersonic flypast. The resulting sonic boom shattered nearly all the glass in the airport and caused significant structural damage, delaying the opening for another year.
oBdoK TIL that the Memory of Mankind has buried modern 'clay tablets' preserving the most important modern knowledge beneath a salt mine in Austria for future generations with clues to decipher them
D1rxJ TIL a species of bamboo flowers every 50 years, resulting in rat plagues that have caused famine.
WkOpL TIL that in 2019, a saxophonist was hired to compose a song for the critically endangered New Zealand bird, the Kakapo, in order to put them in a romantic mood for mating. It seems to have worked as 249 eggs were laid and 76 hatched during the breeding season.
Z8Epo TIL Hollywood's current obsession with remakes won't include Back to the Future, says director Robert Zemeckis, at least not while he's alive -- and if he has his way, not when he's dead either. Adding that it "can’t happen until both Bob [Gale] and I are dead." Gale was co-writer on all three films