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

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ygLX TIL the foundry that made the Liberty Bell still exists and is the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain
8ekdG TIL that when Henry Maxim invented the automatic machine-gun, he went deaf from test-firing it so much.. this affected his son enough that as an adult he added his own invention to the family legacy: the silencer.
R1Jw TIL that the torture perpetrated at the Kemna concentration camp, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, was so brutal that the Nazi themselves held hearings and investigated the reports of torture. However, no crimes were prosecuted, there were only warnings given.
xM1k TIL that National Rare Disease Day occurs rarely, on Feb 29th, once every 4 years.
Ekr7 TIL the suicide count at the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco was officially stopped at 997 “to prevent record breakers”