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TIL German citizens, upon reaching their 100th birthday, receive a letter of congratulations from their president.

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WB6X TIL after the Sandy Hook shootings, people donated more than 65,000 teddy bears, 9 tractor trailers of paper snowflakes, and half a million letters to a town of only 27,000 people. Since then the bears have been re-donated across the globe to places including Haiti, and Afghanistan.
mABP TIL: In 2005, the BBC asked readers to vote for individual band members to create an “ideal supergroup.” They voted for Led Zeppelin
QNyEM TIL Airport runway numbers aren't sequential, they are based off compass bearings. Runway 9 would be 90 degrees, runway 27 is 270 degrees...
o9EY TIL to film the weightless space scenes in the Apollo 13 movie the cast and crew did 612 25-second takes aboard NASA’s zero-gravity plane
Y7ymG TIL The M3 "Grease gun" used by U.S troops in WW2 actually was made to replace the infamous "Tommy Gun" rather than the other way around.