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TIL a man in the netherlands has been sentenced to jail for sending over 3500 freedom of information-requests to the local city hall, costing the city over 500k € per year

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8eXla TIL the Boeing 747 fuel tank is so big it takes up the entire wing span of the plane.
X0v96 TIL JetBlue provides the most generous legroom in economy class at 32.3 inches, with Southwest Airlines offering a comfortable second place at 31.8 inches.
Y7OGA TIL of Alice Kober, who helped decipher an ancient script known as Linear B. Over 20 years, she meticulously recorded her research in a collection of 180,000 index cards. The script was deciphered in 1952, shortly after her death. It remains the only Bronze Age Aegean script that is readable now.
lodyr TIL that in 2007 a group of otters at the Bronx Zoo forcefully drowned a langur in full view of visitors and other langurs. The langurs had been tormenting the otters, so they united and exacted revenge by drowning the monkey and left its dead body afloat for the other langurs to see.
Wkp58 TIL that Eminem's mother created a rap CD called "Set The Record Straight" directed at her son in response to Eminem's many disparaging lyrics about her