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TIL that an engineer from Oregon bought a Boeing 727 and turned it into his home. He has been living in a retired airliner for six months every year since 1999.

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JY6pj TIL In 2011, a Brazilian man found a penguin covered in oil and close to death. He nursed him back to health and since then the Penguin swims 3 to 5 thousand miles every year to spend time with his human soulmate.
5Vvdr TIL Grigori Perelman was offered the Fields Medal in 2006 and the Millennium Prize of 1 million dollars in 2010 for his contribution in solving the Poincaré Conjecture, an open problem in mathematics for a century. He rejected both of them.
4a9J TIL A shibboleth is a word that can only be said correctly by native speakers. During WW2, American troops used the word “lollapalooza” to check unidentified people. Japanese spies would often go to areas posing as allied men, if the first two syllables come back as rorra, they would kill them.
neRP9 TIL Liam Neeson was offered the role as Ra's al Ghul in The CW's Arrow Season 3. He had previously played the same character in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. Neeson was willing to return to the role. But he had to turn it down because he didn't have the time for it.
oE9o TIL researchers have developed a portable HIV test which can test a single drop of blood via a USB drive plugged into a laptop. Its accuracy approaches that of traditional tests, and it could be used in remote areas as well as allowing people to monitor their condition at home.