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TIL that UPS is more than trucks and package cars. It has an entire airline and a 5.2 million square feet package sorting hub at Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport (IATA: SDF) in Louisville, KY.

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5YgLp TIL that in the 1930s Austria established its own Fascist dictatorship with its own version of the Swastika whose leader, Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated on Hitler's orders in 1934.
l7jYA TIL that the smallest functional motorcycle in the world is called ‘Smalltoe.’ Tom Wiberg, from Sweden, built Smalltoe, which stood at 2.55 inches tall and weighed a mere 2.4 pounds. The Guinness World Records certified Wiberg as a record holder in 2003 for making the smallest functional motorcycle
KOWJQ TIL that the borders of four Canadian provinces might meet at one point, but due to an inaccuracy in Nunavut's legal definition in 1999 it's still unclear
dkdB TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
v1DXD TIL there’s an extremely rare 4-under par score in golf called a “Condor” that is so rare there have only been 4 confirmed instances of them in history