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TIL all airports are aerodromes, but not all aerodromes are airports.

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4XnMN TIL Captain Robert Knox (1641 – 1720) of British East India Company was imprisoned for 20 years in the south asian island of Ceylon. Upon his escape he bought back a "strange intoxicating herb" unheard of in Europe. The herb is known today as Cannabis Indica.
Xly8 TIL Hitler and Nazi officials outlawed animal cruelty including the boiling of live lobsters.
Me8j7 TIL about Danny the Street, a comic book character written by Grant Morrison. It is a genderqueer, sentient street that was a member of Doom Patrol and the Teen Titans.
OoEML TIL the population of English rabbits in Australia grew from 24 in 1859 to an estimated 10 billion in the 1920s!
GVp5 TIL From 1998-2010, hedge funds earned $379 billion in fees, while the investors in them earned $70 billion in gains.