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DQp7P TIL LaGuardia Airport was built on the site of a former amusement park owned by piano manufacturer William Steinway.
NXQDJ TIL many of Alfred Hitchcock's "Hitchcock blondes"- including Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest), Kim Novak (Vertigo), Vera Miles (Psycho), and Tippi Hedren (The Birds)- are all alive today and in their 90s.
Xowk TIL that on a surprise visit to hospital after a fan fell into a coma when stabbed 30 times, Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), sang to the girl and her arms and legs started moving, the next day she woke up.
ANxew TIL: That two days before the outbreak of WWII, the BBC was taken off air; the final broadcast being the Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Mickey's Gala Premier". BBC Television returned at 3pm on 7th June 1946 and twenty minutes later, aired the same Mickey Mouse cartoon that they had broadcast in 1939.
78Job TIL that The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family during WW2