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TIL A retired electrical engineer named Bruce Campbell had an old Boeing 727 delivered to the woods near Portland, OR and converted it to his home where he lives full time

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J1dr4 TIL that the first bees emerged over 120 million years ago, surviving the dinasour wipe out. It is revealed in a recent study in Current Biology. Surprisingly, bees diversified and spread much faster than previously believed.
XE1DD TIL When Taiwan's president in 1995, Lee Teng-hui, had stopped in Honolulu to refuel his plane, the U.S government refused to grant him a visa and forced him to spend the night on his plane. Lee later complained that he was "being treated as a second-class leader."
D1LAP TIL There was an Anti-Mask League, an organization formed to protest the requirement for people in San Francisco to wear masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
0gmA TIL 25% of all Toblerone chocolate is sold at duty free airport shops
7rBZZ TIL a woman's clitoris actually looks kinda like a space penguin when the whole thing is properly imaged, and that father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud hated it, calling it an "infantile organ." And also that Freud invented the vaginal orgasm, which apparently is not actually a thing.