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Today I learned, after airspace was closed after the attacks of 9/11, 38 planes were diverted to a large dormant airport in Newfoundland Canada and the residents of Gander in Newfoundland welcomed in nearly 7,000 people into their homes and schools to stay while they where stranded for 6 days.

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LQoO0 TIL that Otis Redding recorded "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay" just three days before his death in a plane crash
DQKwr TIL there was a math question on the 1982 SAT that every single test taker got wrong. The question was so paradoxical that the creators were confused and didn’t include the actual answer as part of the selection. All 300,000 exams had to be rescored.
Wkwv8 TIL A psychology study of more than 4,000 millionaires found that people with more wealth are indeed happier with life. They also found that people who earned their wealth were happier than those who inherited it.
wLNx7 TIL that Matthew McConaughey originally auditioned with Kate Winslet for 'Titanic' (1997) and was confident he got the role of Jack, but Leonardo DiCaprio interviewed next and James Cameron said every woman in the building showed up for the meeting so he thought, 'maybe I should cast this guy'.
awAyJ TIL after complaints that their "footlong" sub was 11 inches long, Subway said, "With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, 'Subway Footlong' is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length."