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TIL that the ship used by scientology as a first headquarter was sunk by a train in 1980

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Eg5NX TIL that 4.25 a.m. on 13th July 1944 a Junkers JU88 aircraft landed at RAF Woodbridge in England. The hapless German aircrew assumed they were near Berlin. The JU88 had a new radar system that could detect Lancaster bombers up to 100 miles away. Subsequent alteration of the bombers saved many lives.
E11rP TIL that North Korea has only 724 km of paved roads, one-fourth of tiny Luxembourg which has 2,899 km
WLVo TIL that there is a Native American tribe of ultra-runners known as the Tarahumara. They can run 200 miles non-stop, and play running games that go on for up to 2 days without breaks. They use the toe-strike method of running instead of the traditonal heel-strike.
MVwV TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay about the universe begining from a “single originating particle” 80 years before the idea of The Big Bang.
GY4j4 TIL that the food pyramid came from Sweden