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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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a8JZN TIL that Daniele Comboni, the founder of the Catholic Priest group, Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
ne8Mr TIL That Russia had a small colony in Africa (modern-day Djibouti) for about one month.
D1klP TIL that the QWERTY keyboard is deliberately a very inefficient way of typing
YpxxA TIL that Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of America are the only 3 countries not using the metric system.
D1Y7g TIL of the most rural post office in the US; the Supai Post Office is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and is serviced by a mule train that takes 2.5 hours to reach it. It services the Havasupai reservation and demonstrates the obligation of the US Postal System to service every community.