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TIL there was a man who lived in an airport for 18 years due to someone stealing his documents

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X01ZD TIl the first page of the Gettysburg Address was written in Washington, in ink and on official stationery. The second page was written in Gettysburg, in pencil on a piece of that happened to be at hand.
Aj54 TIL the Swiss Air Force is only operational weekdays between 8am-5pm, closing for lunch between 12pm-1:30pm. In 2014, they were unable to intercept a highjacked airliner because they weren’t open yet that morning.
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs
p8xVp TIL The Black Death Plague in Medieval Times Led to a Breakdown in Morals and Drunken Orgy Parties
jAaE TIL in Brazil, Playstation 4 will cost over $1,800.