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TIL That the Airfield where the Wright Brothers first flew, has its own IATA Airport code (FFA) and is a National Park where you can still land planes and Gliders.

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YPKZ TIL: At age 4, U.S woman’s soccer star Abby Wambach was transferred from the girls’ to the boys’ team after scoring 27 goals in three games.
awPQA TIL Whoopi Goldberg's birth name is Caryn Elaine Johnson. "Whoopi" is because she got gassy, "Goldberg" is due to a claim of Jewish ancestry.
d8l0B TIL that Ostracism, intentionally excluding people, is derived from the Ancient Greek practice of temporarily expelling citizens they thought were a threat to society. Voters would scratch the name of the person to be expelled on broken pieces of pottery, called in Ancient Greek, "ostrakon."
5VKZD TIL the piece of paper on top of a Hershey kiss is called a niggly wiggly
BgxBr TIL about the Montevideo Maru, a Japanese naval ship sunk in 1942 by a U.S. submarine whose crew was unaware it was carrying over a thousand prisoners of war. It remains Australia's worst-ever maritime disaster, and the wreck was discovered only last week.