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TIL airports renumber their runways because the magnetic pole is not fixed, and headings change slightly over time

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NXprb Today I Learned that Hitler forced the French to surrender in WW2 in the same carriage the Germans Surrendered in, in WW1.
Z8YLG TIL: Woolly Mammoths were still alive by the time the pyramids at Giza were completed. The last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, north of Russia, only 4000 years ago, leaving several centuries where the pyramids and mammoths existed at the same time.
epWmg TIL that San Marino has won three Olympic medals, all won at the 2020 Tokyo games. With 33,600 people, it is the smallest country by population to have won an Olympic medal.
R5WW9 TIL the official implementation of Daylight Saving Time had nothing to do with farmers. It was about fuel conversation during WW1 and was originally known as "War Time".
aZpN TIL that the USSR sent so many scientists and engineers to the gulag prisons that the government set up labs for them. While workers in the ‘Sharashka’ facilities did not have to perform hard labor like other inmates, their work was published under the names of more famous Soviet scientists.