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TIL All glass in Sweden is recycled in one building.

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GAXKQ TIL The Osage killings were a series of murders in the 1920s targeting wealthy Osage Native Americans due to oil wealth, revealing a disturbing conspiracy for financial gain.
xVQ7D TIL that the first aircraft autopilot was developed in 1912 and demonstrated in 1914 - and in 1947 a transatlantic flight, including takeoff and landing, was made completely under autopilot control
naxb TIL A man killed his wife inside the Walmart she was working at. Rather than close the store, they chose to just rope off the gore-splattered area while the police investigated.
7O8M TIL Alcoholics Anonymous contains enough religious elements that mandating someone to attend AA is in violation of the First Amendment of the constitution
jNJgM TIL that in 1818 US began building a fort near the New York - Quebec border to defend against invasions from Canada.After 2 years of construction, they realized the fort was actually on the Canadian side.They abandoned it and nicknamed it Fort Blunder.