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TIL of the Cross Border Xpress at Tiajuana International Airport, a 390 foot bridge over the US-Mexico border where passengers can park on the American side, clear customs, cross the bridge, and board a plane that departs on the Mexican side all without ever leaving the same airport.

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GB55 TIL the longest American Presidential Inauguration was William Henry Harrison; over 2 hours and 8000+ words. He died a month later of pneumonia.
9YJNG TIL about Dusan Popov, MI6 triple agent who deceived Germans during WWII that D-Day would occur in Calais, not Normandy. Popov was famous for his playboy lifestyle which made him one of primary inspirations for James Bond.
89R4 TIL James Joyce’s Ulysses contains more vocabulary words than Shakespeare’s entire canon
8eplL TIL that actress Lupita Nyong’o ‘s mtDNA is extremely close to that of “Mitochondrial Eve,” a woman who walked the earth 200,000 years ago, and is the “mother” of us all.
xVv0B TIL In 2004, Ecuadorians synchronized their watches simultaneously to combat the chronic lateness that was costing their economy $2.5 Billion per year