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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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WvrA TIL when TGI Friday’s announced their $10 Endless Appetizers deal, a woman sat in a Friday’s for 14 hours eating plate after plate of mozzarella sticks to see if they were truly “endless”. They were.
YJBZ TIL that in 1985, Philadelphia police used a helicopter to drop two bombs on a house during an armed standoff. The bombs ignited a fire that killed 11 and destroyed 60 homes.
VBw5B TIL about the Birthday Paradox which says that in a group of 23 people there is a 50% chance that at least two of them will share a birthday. It is considered an example of a veridical paradox which seems wrong at first but is actually true.
j6GKX TIL about Lucy Salani, who was the only transgender person to have survived imprisonment and torture in the Nazi concentration camps.
p8NQp TIL there is fountain in Chicago called ‘shit fountain’. The artist created a giant bronze coil of feces as both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.