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TIL a 64-year-old Sydney man filed 19,600 noise complaints about airport noise over a 12 month period. He averaged approximately one complaint for every 20 minutes the airport was open.

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7VEM TIL a village in Peru settles their grudges by fistfighting on christmas day, then go drinking and start the new year off on a clean slate.
a8Jjy TIL that Irishwoman Christian Davies was the first woman to be admitted to the British Army retirement home Royal Hospital Chelsea in 1717, after serving in the British Army from 1693 to 1706 while disguised as a man
EgYYd TIL that comic book writer and huge Superman fan Mark Millar owns the stuffed remains of the white cat "Frisky" that Superman rescues out of a tree in the classic 1978 film.
Vl6m TIL that 18-year-old teenager helped scientists study her own rare type of cancer, and together they discovered a gene flaw possibly involved in the disease’s growth
jNYmR TIL of Bloody Sunday (1920) when 14 Irish civilians were killed in Croke Park during a Gaelic Football match when British forces opened fire on the players and the crowd.