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TIL that the United Nations is located in international territory sold to the UN for $8.5m by John D. Rockefeller.

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lpGK TIL that Neerja Bhanot, an Indian flight, attendant hid the passports of American passengers on board a hijacked flight to save them from the terrorits. She died while attempting to help passengers escape, shielding three children from a hail of bullets.
D1O1p TIL baby otters can’t swim when they are born. It can take baby otters months to learn how to swim depending on their species. Sea otter moms need to carry babies on their belly or place them in kelp beds until they learn how to swim properly on their own.
OGMng TIL Sir Timothy Richard Shadbolt, former Mayor of Invercargill, famously celebrated a parade by driving his his concrete mixer - named "Karl Marx" - behind the mayoral Daimler in the 1983 Henderson Christmas parade
BlwK TIL that Robert Plant donated money to a radio station that promised to never play “Stairway to Heaven” again
5YlBn TIL the owners of the Titanic demanded huge sums of money at the time to return the bodies of ship's crew to their grieving families.