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TIL that Singapore and Malaysia have the busiest international land border checkpoint in the world and also the busiest international air route by flights flown

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QJLVE TIL that there were over 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 combinations to the Enigma Machine, regarding the codes it could use for messages. Yet, Alan Turing's Bombe machine, through just trial and error, was able to decode messages sent by Germans in 20 minutes.
Y7xkG TIL of St. Peter Stiftskulinarium, a restaurant in Austria that's believed to have been open since 803 making it the oldest still active restaurant in the world. Its clientele are believed to have included Christopher Columbus, Johann Georg Faust, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
K1B TIL that there are natural alternatives to chlorine pools, which have plants growing in them to keep them clean
l995 TIL the U.S. spends more money per person on health care than any other developed country, yet its life expectancy is below average.
R7Od9 TIL that the earliest recordable instance of a chokeslam technique was a move made by President Abraham Lincoln.