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TIL that Stonehenge was once surrounded by what amounted to a giant city, a kind of “Prehistoric Vatican”.

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YKZW TIL millionaire Michael O'Leary, CEO of airline Ryanair, has his own taxicab company with just one cab so he can legally use the bus lanes and avoid traffic jams
9WoQ TIL before WWII Henry Ford sent thousands of US workers to Soviet Union in order to establish a Ford licenced factory. The project was a huge disaster and the workers were abandoned by Ford and the US government. Most of them died in Soviet gulags, less than a hundred ever came back.
9MmX TIL Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of the cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
P1YPJ TIL that the blow-fly of East and Central Africa, commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry and a good way to prevent the transfer to a person's skin, is to iron all clothes including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.
plb8 TIL that the inventor of Vaseline was such a firm believer in its medicinal properties that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it a day; During a bout of pleurisy in his 50s, he ordered his nurse to cover him from head to toe in the substance, and soon recovered. He lived to be 94.