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TIL Chicago’s O'Hare airport is mowed by a team of 40 goats. No humans

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GARQ7 TIL the original name for a zipper was "hookless fastener." The original patent for "Zipper" ONLY referred to a specific type of boots that utilized the hookless fastener.
6E8o7 TIL in 1961 Ronald Reagan released a spoken-word album warning against socialized medicine.
4koOa TIL there was a deadlier martime disaster than the Titanic: the Sultana. Carrying 6 times the passengers than it was alotted, the Sultana sank on the Mississippi river killing over 1,100 Union Soldiers. The tragedy did not receive much attention as it was days after the assassination of Lincoln.
XE0BQ TIL Christopher Columbus was stuck in Jamaica with angry natives refusing to give him food. Knowing that a lunar eclipse was going to happen, Columbus told the natives that his gods were angry for refusing him food. After the eclipse, the scared natives gave him lots of food and begged for mercy.
neA6d TIL Olympic Pole Vaulter Sergey Bubka was being payed $100,000 every time he set a world record, he subsequently set the world record 35 times.