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TIL shortwave radio is still commonly used for news broadcasts around the world

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ZDyD TIL that Banana Republic is a term for a politically unstable country whose economy is largely dependent on the export of a single limited-resource product, such as bananas
a8BGZ TIL Elvis had a dead twin
oDyo TIL there’s a theory that humans went nearly extinct 7,000 years ago.
ADWJB TIL violinist Lili Haydn was allowed to choose her own name as a child, and for a time was known as 'Helicopter'
J1nLm TIL the belief that the two disasters involving the De Havilland Comet were caused by square passenger windows is a myth. The two planes involved actually used rectangular windows with rounded edges; and the "square windows" is actually the square cut-out for the ADF Antenna above the cockpit.