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TIL due to the failure of the Boeing 2707, a Concorde competitor, and a downturn in general aviation in the 1970s, Boeing fired 60,000 employees. So many people left Seattle that a billboard was placed near the airport that read "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights?"

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R7QJa TIL a lot of the greek tragedies of the classical period are "spin offs" or new takes on stories from the works of Homer. In Euripides' "Helen", Helen of Troy never really went to Troy, but unbeknownst to the Achaeans, she was in Egypt the whole time, and the trojan war was completely pointless
nJJr TIL Hitler annexed Austria through a rigged popular referendum. The bubble representing “No” to union was half the size of “Yes” and was shoved to the corner of the ballot.
WXK9 TIL a hidden tributary of London’s river Thames called the Tyburn has a short exposed stretch running through an antiques shop. There are golden fish living in the stream.
X0odX TIL Jack Coe, one of the first modern faith healers, claimed a child was cured of polio and demanded parents remove his braces, causing the child extreme medical issues. Was criminally charged w/ practicing medicine w/o a license but judge dismissed case. Coe died of polio shortly after at 38 y.o.
OG6Z6 TIL A 72- to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study| The most complete fossil suggests that these dinosaurs developed bird-like postures close to hatching.