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TIL There's a 30 Year-Old Airline That's Never Flown

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b9R90 TIL A font called Doves Type was lost in 1917 after one of the creators threw the printing blocks into the River Thames. Some of it was recovered by divers in 2015
6Xn7 TIL a man faked his death to see how many people would come to his funeral. Only his mother showed
XmbR TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once backed a bill to import Hippopotamuses into the U.S to produce meat to solve the American meat crisis in 1910. The American Hippo bill nearly passed, but fell one vote short.
4XrA6 TIL Newton Minow, then FCC chairman, called television a "vast wasteland" in 1961. In his "honor", Sherwood Schwartz named the ship on Gilligan's Island after him in 1964. Minow is still alive at 94.
VMD0Q TIL that the Goodyear Blimp was declared the official bird of the city of Redondo Beach, California