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TIL that Margaret Thatcher was opposed to the fall of the Berlin Wall and actively tried to stop it

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N7JlQ TIL of the Kolyma Highway. A 1200+ mile long modern road in Russia that an estimated quarter of a million people died building. Because of permafrost, interment into the fabric of the road was deemed more practical than burying the bodies in new holes, resulting in the nickname The Road of Bones.
D1kg TIL Louie CK once repeatedly asked Donald Rumsfeld whether or not he is a lizard, live in XM radio.
xVkAo TIL It took mankind 50 years, 3 months and 26 days to advance from Wright's first manned flight to Gagarin's' first manned space flight. Today we are further in history from Gagarin's historic flight than he was from Wright's flight.
9K9r TIL the word ‘Ortheopy’, meaning 'the correct pronunciation of words’ can itself be pronounced five different ways.
Wkb4 TIL There is only one McDonald’s restaurant in Cuba, and it’s in Guantanamo Bay.