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TIL The Offspring's Dexter Holland is a high school valedictorian, has a PhD in molecular biology from USC, has a pilot's licence and flew solo around the world in 10 days.

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QJLPp TIL in 1974, the British Army took over Heathrow Airport. Although it was publicly said to be practice against an IRA plot, PM Wilson and the government had no knowledge of the exercise. It was later revealed that the British Army was planning a coup, and it was a trial run.
e0NlD TIL the original Mr. Potato Head didn't come with a plastic body. The pieces were meant to be put into an actual potato.
LkBRV Today I learned this interesting piece of history about the 19th century colonial railroad race to Yunnan! Connecting railways lines across the Asian landscapes in a bid to exert imperial dominance in Southeast Asia.
wLX41 IBM now have a 50 qubit quantum computer but are still trying to figure out what to do with it.
b9V7N TIL about Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family. She hid them in the Secret Annex for 25 months until they were found by the Gestapo. She survived because the officer who found her felt bad, but sent the others to the camps. She later gave Otto Frank Anne's diary and died in 2010.