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TIL: Canadian JW Boucher served in the American Civil War and World War 1

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AGW4 TIL that the dad in Gremlins was the guy who wrote Three Dog Night’s “Joy To The World” (Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog).
PYNYg TIL There is an airport in germany which is under construction since 2006. Before that, planning alone took over 15 years. It was supposed to open in 2011.
7rnO7 TIL measuring tapes have many hidden features, such as a scribe.
yBap TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers’ Party (PPPP) won 16 seats in the Sejm with 2.97% of the vote in the first free parliamentary elections in 1991, before disintegrating into Large Beer and Small Beer factions despite party president Rewiński’s claims that “beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty.”
5VeMn TIL: Operación Milagro - The Cuban international medical aid program for treating eye problems, which has cured over 3 million people around the world