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TIL there is a farm in the middle of Tokyo's Narita airport. As the owners refused to move, the airport was built around it.

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lMmV TIL: Jules Verne in 1863 made a book called “Paris in the 20th century” that has everything from glass skyscrapers, automobiles, hippies, computers, the magnetic train, modern music and so on. Publishers back in the day rejected it because they felt it was too unrealistic.
7r64p TIL from 1968 to 1973, the British evicted the entire population of the Chagos islands to allow the United States to build a military base on Diego Garcia
4kEDR Today I Learned that a feller buncher is a type of harvesting machine used in logging. “Feller” is someone who cuts down trees, and “bunching” is the skidding and assembly of two or more trees. A feller buncher is a motorized vehicle with an attachment that performs both of these functions.
EwBp TIL that Colombians are obsessed with plastic surgery. The Latin American country did 375,000 cosmetic procedures in 2015 for both natives and foreigners, #2 per capita to South Korea. Thousands of Colombian teenage girls save money for years to have their first surgery at the legal age of 18.
AN6bx TIL The St. Johns River is the longest river in Florida, and the longest river in the United States that flows northward