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TIL There are still large concrete arrows across the US from the Transcontinental Airway System, which helped pilots prior to radio navigation

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16D54 TIL that during their 1966 world tour, which included the Philippines, The Beatles accidentally snubbed then First Lady Imelda Marcos by missing a palace luncheon sparking public outrage and a hostile send-off. It was so traumatic that the Beatles vowed never to return to the Philippines.
ANrlB TIL infants initially defecate in diapers because they have not yet been taught how to use the toilet.
JYEKQ TIL: Chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina were ridiculed by representatives of the aerosol and halocarbon industries for their hypothesis that CFCs would lead to depletion of the ozone layer. The chair of DuPont called it: "a science fiction tale...a load of rubbish...utter nonsense".
MexJb TIL A guy faked his own death in order to get out of a Verizon Wireless contract
0dWAy TIL King John I of France had the shortest reign in French History. His father died 4 months before John’s birth and John became king on the day of his birth in 1316. Sadly he died 5 days later. There are rumors that he was murdered.