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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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gMOEL TIL: As part of her sentence for abandoning 35 kittens in the woods, an Ohio woman was ordered to spend a night alone in the woods without water, food, or entertainment.
rEm0 TIL Mr. Rogers’ cardigans were knitted by his mom
wQLM TIL a music producer successfully pranked Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles to record the song Eternal Flame naked after convincing her that Olivia Newton-John recorded all her songs naked.
1aVGr TIL that Bill Murray signed up for the Garfield movie because he thought Joel Coen, of the Coen Brothers, was the writer; however, the writer was Joel Cohen, the man who wrote Toy Story and Cheaper by the Dozen. He still did the movie. And the sequel.
9wlK6 TIL that the Eiffel Tower was due to be dismantled, in 1910, but survived as it could (and still is) used as a giant radio antenna to transmit and receive radio broadcasts.