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TIL The flight from Moscow to Anadyr is the longest scheduled domestic flight within a country - 9 hours 45 minutes. In order to enter the Chukotka region, travellers will be required to have a special permission entry form and it takes about 60 working days to process all the necessary paperwork

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x6Q61 TIL that the city of Harran, the city Dying Light set in, was a real city founded by Sumerians and their worship of Sumerian Moon God Sin survived til 11th century despite being the capital of several Islamic kingdoms. The city is largely abandoned after mongol conquest until 20th century.
n5XW TIL Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish war hero who helped win the American Revolutionary War, left his property in the USA to be sold to educate and free Thomas Jefferson’s and other slaves. As executor, Jefferson never acted on the will and no slaves were freed.
nW9bG TIL that there are 167 Zoroastrian fire temples in the world, of which 150 are in India. Of these only 9 (1 in Iran and 8 in India) are the main temples known as atash behrams and the remaining are the smaller temples known as agiarys.
D9dv TIL after Hurricane Ike, Comcast customers were billed as much as $1000 for unreturned equipment like DVRs that had been destroyed by the hurricane.
An5B TIL A D.A.R.E Cop was caught selling 414 Ecstasy Pills and 50 Bottles of Ketamine to an undercover cop from a different town. The Dare Cop was also a son of a Former Police Captain and lived in a house owned by the retired Police Captain.