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TIL in the middle of the Savannah International Airport lies a 200 year old grave in the runway, marked because the family was reluctant to move the graves to another location while the airport was urgently built to use for bombers during WW2.

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0dkGN TIL Türkiye is now the official name for the country formerly known in English as Turkey after being accepted by the UN last year.
ADQ9B TIL Jack was a baboon purchased by a railway signalman who lost his legs in an accident. The Baboon began to operate the railway, and was eventually given a job and salary. In 9 years of employment, he never made a mistake.
oRMML TIL there is a unit of measurement used to measure the distance to celestial bodies based on the distance between the Earth and the Sun
woGlo TIL that honeybees can recognize human faces. Conventional wisdom holds that the ability to recognize faces requires a complex mammalian brain. But studies of paper wasps and honeybees have shown that some small-brained insects can manage this feat, too.
7rk5b TIL that Disney uses lime green to represent unfathomable evil. This can been seen in movies such as Maleficent, Lion King, Hercules and more...