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TIL Dallas / Forth Worth Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan.

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v6rx TIL During a “Botched Drug Raid” using a No-Knock Warrant 39 shots were fired at an elderly woman after she fired one shot over the heads of the plain clothed men entering her home. Those same officers later planted coke and marijuana at her home in a failed attempt at framing her.
KYWRR TIL that Solid Snake wrote the screenplays for X-Men (2000) and Watchmen (2009).
LkgY9 TIL that x-ray analysis is commonly applied to ancient paintings in order to reveal corrections, underdrawings and even figures the artist wanted to hide, such as a hidden man in Picassos "Blue Room".
nE4P TIL Bela Lugosi, who portrayed Dracula in many films, was actually born in Transylvania
7rG8x TIL during the German invasion of the USSR in WW2, Nazi forces captured Stalin's son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. When the Nazis proposed exchanging him for their captured field marshal Frierich Paulus, Stalin retorted "I will not trade a marshal for a lieutenant." Dzhugashvili was later executed in 1943.