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TIL that Rikers Island, New York City’s largest jail, is located only 422 feet away from the runway of La Guardia Airport.

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rR5xw TIL NASA’s Crawler-Transporter gets .0067 mpg, making it the worst gas mileage of all self-propelled land vehicles in the world.
yQZPw TIL of Marv Heemeyer Who built an armoured bulldozer After losing an appeal in the council against construction of a concrete plant and destroyed his own shop, the concrete plant, city hall, fr. mayor's house,, a hardware store. In the end he killed himself, the only fatality of the event.
400o TIL Shania Twain divorced her husband after he cheated with her best friend. Later Twain married the ex-husband of that same best friend.
b9v64 TIL President Franklin Pierce didn't swear his oath of office on a Bible. Weeks after his election, Pierce was in a train accident, in which he witnessed his son die before his eyes. He didn’t take the oath on a Bible because he believed his son’s death was God’s judgment for his campaigning.
5Ga9 TIL a Pan-Am flight crashed in the Syrian desert, killing fourteen passengers. Two crew survived - one of the two was the co-pilot, named Gene Roddenberry. He was so disturbed by the crash that he quit to become a writer, and shortly after he created Star Trek.