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TIL Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can’t drive cars.

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4Gja Today I learned Steve Jobs used his money to take an organ from a more deserving person.
AKl TIL that the author of “Alice in Wonderland”, Lewis Carroll, was a valid suspect for Jack the Ripper!
P11VL TIL in 1965 the first Channel Crossing by car took place, using 2 Amphicars, the first amphibious mass-produced automobiles. They then drove to Frankfurt.
W5Yd TIL Florida has so much bizarre news stories because the state has exceptionally open public records and a high population
6r88 TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million.