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TIL Switzerland is 829 years old today. Happy birthday Switzerland!

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OoA67 TIL that, Nepalese Gurkha Tul Bahadur Pun, recipient of the Victoria Cross during WWII, had his application for settlement in the UK initially denied on the ground that he had "failed to demonstrate strong ties with the UK."
ADWAa TIL that Natalie Portman not only co-authored a paper called "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" but that her birth name is Hershlag.
kOpB7 TIL that Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) has their own police department, a jurisdiction that covers 34,000 miles of railroad.
D1OZV TIL a small percentage of the population can read during their dreams, and they tend to be writers, especially poets.
awNn9 TIL Billionaire Howard Hughes was badly injured in a plane crash in 1946. Unsatisfied with his hospital bed, Hughes had a team of engineers design a custom bed comprised of six sections, operated by 30 electric motors with push-button adjustments- this became a prototype for the modern hospital bed.