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TIL Self made millionaire Harris Rosen adapted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo park, cur the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduate scholarships.

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loLLK TIL in 2012 a 80 yo lady safely landed a plane after her husband, the pilot, had an heart attack and died while flying. She had never flown before.
DxAV TIL women were allowed to enter combat roles in the Israel. They performed at a level equal to men but the program was still abolished for two reasons: Islamist fighters refused to surrender to women, and the men in the unit would lose all combat discipline when a woman was injured.
VMoA8 TIL NASA conducted a series of arduous tests on 11 deaf men to study the impact of motion sickness on astronauts after discovering that people who became deaf as a result of spinal meningitis didn’t suffer from motion sickness because of the impact of the illness on their inner ear physiology
AWZl TIL there is a floating prison in America
BPKL TIL that the English language went through a period where the sound of long vowels changed dramatically, it is known as the Great Vowel Shift and it happened ca. 1350 to 1600.