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Z8d44 TIL Pan Am's 1930s passenger seaplanes from San Francisco to China had to refuel 5 times, so they operated luxury hotels for overnight layovers in remote places like Midway Islands, where its' Pan Am Hotel was known as "Gooneyville Lodge".
loPBK TIL that Spartans only allowed marked graves for men who died in battle and women who died in childbirth.
Lkjr TIL John Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without any recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos.
9YkMG TIL in 2015 Ireland accidentally legalised ecstasy, ketamine, magic mushrooms and all other class A drugs for 24 hours as it’s 1977 Misuse of Drugs act was found to be unconstitutional
Mey9m TIL Nazis kidnapped “Aryan-looking” children from across Europe and brought them back to Germany for indoctrination.