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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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DNJv TIL there’s an annual lying competition in England, and competitors from around the world have five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing lie they can. Politicians and lawyers are banned from entering because they’re thought to be too good at it.
p8gXb TIL the island of Okinawa was under US control from 1945 till 1972 when it was returned to Japan
16ryX TIL the garage where Hewlett-Packard was founded is a California Historical Landmark. This one-car garage in Palo Alto, California is considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley.
OGx7a TIL Richard Axel received an MD from Johns Hopkins by promising the dean that he would never practice medicine. He switched to biological research instead and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for his work on olfaction.
ORXY TIL George Lucas got the word Jedi from Jidaigeki, which is a Japanese term for Samurai period Drama