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TIL There are three airports differently named after the same person. John Paul II Kraków, João Paulo II Airport and Bari International Airport-Karol Wojtyła

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78GP7 TIL that the town of Alvira, PA was purchased by the DOD during WW2 & all its residents displaced. They built about 150 bunkers to housed munitions. Today you can find remaining bunkers in State Game Lands 252. (Wear blaze orange!)
NMRb TIL the Taj Mahal was covered with a huge scaffold during WW2 to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboo and misguide any enemy bombers. (It was also disguised again in 1971!)
lQxA TIL the Hanging Gardens of Babylon likely existed in the Assyrian city of Nineveh. The Assyrian king Sennacherib had a garden matching the Babylon garden descriptions which was built after the Assyrian takeover of Babylon. Nineveh was then referred to as “New Babylon” causing the name discrepancy.
pPpG TIL that due to generations of healthier diet, the average American soldier was several inches taller than the average British soldier at the time of the American Revolution
JDxm TIL Graham crackers were invented to make people stop masturbating.