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TIL That the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has the entire earth and every airport rendered meaning you could fly to your own house.

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9w8jB TIL about the Cornbread Mafia, the largest domestic marijuana syndicate in US History. In the 80s group of KY farmers and moonshiners that grew hundreds of acres in cornfields, were protected by their communities, and evaded federal agents for nearly a decade.
yQv4l TIL in 1981 the US claimed Vietnam had used chemical weapons on it's own people, saying over ten thousand had died from what was described as 'yellow rain'. The 'yellow rain' was analyzed and found to be harmless bee feces.
e0WY5 TIL: The most expensive video game ever sold is a rare version of Super Mario Bros. that sold for $100,150 in 2019. Only one copy is believed to exist in unopened condition.
Nkg6 TIL of a thousand year old rosebush in Hildesheim Germany. It even survived world war two, despite being bombed by the allies.
VjnG TIL that in 2010, a drunk Serbian man on vacation in Egypt became a local hero after he did a cannonball into the ocean and inadvertently killed a Hammerhead shark that had been terrorizing people for weeks.