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TIL that US "Gold Star" next-of-kin are eligible for lifetime free access to all National Park Service parks

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PYLlg TIL that in the past year there were an average of over 9700 planes carrying 1.2 million people in the sky at any given time. That would make the skies the 156th most populous country in the world,right between Estonia and East Timor.
OlxL TIL A Man Played a Civilization game for 10 years.
Wkbr8 TIL that the singer for the Canyonero theme song in The Simpsons was Hank Williams Jr.
b9mGp TIL that the Greek word for “Carpenter” more accurately translates as “home builder” and since Judea built structures primarily out of stone, Jesus was probably a stone mason.
W7kRB TIL of the Guangxi Massacre, an event during the Cultural Revolution with reports of “mass cannibalism.” Revolutionaries ate hundreds of Chinese citizens, not because of famine or economic reasons, but out of political hatred and rituals. Many of these cannibals (1966 - 1976) are still alive today.