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TIL the Paris airport still runs on Windows 3.1

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dNmd TIL The UK has 4 nuclear submarines as a nuclear deterrent, each has an identical “letter of last resort”. These letters contain orders from the current PM should the government collapse due to nuclear attack. The PM has only four options to choose and they’re destroyed unopened upon a new PM.
JYwbl TIL soft-shelled crabs are just regular crabs removed from water after moulting to prevent their shells from hardening and not a species of crab with soft shells
QDW9 TIL Donald Trump tried to stop the building of an offshore wind-farm in Scotland because it would “ruin the view” of his golf course.
VMO5Q TIL that a French family had a roof leak in 2011. Upon inspection, the culprit turned out to be a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that had smashed through their roof tile. the family's name? Commette.
jNLDp TIL 13-yr-old Canadian boy Briar MacLean shoved a knife-wielding bully away from a classmate. School officials put Briar in detention and phoned his mother to say that he was wrong to act on his own, and they didn't "condone heroics." His mom rewarded her son & his friend with a trip to Disneyland.