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WkOrY TIL Tomato ketchup was introduced to the United States in 1834 as a purported medicine and sold in pill form.
dyKj TIL that the highest flying bird is the Ruppell’s vulture; one was injested by a jet at 37,000 feet.
LQDrm TIL about the fall of Alan Magee. A B-17 ball turret gunner in World War II, Magee fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute when his plane was destroyed by flak. He smashed through the roof of a French railroad station, survived, and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.
xVdOB TIL there's a town in Oregon named "Bridal Veil" which despite being a near ghost town still have a popular post office still functioning that gets much of its business from people going there to drop off wedding invitations so they can be postmarked "Bridal Veil".
nW6r9 Today I learned of Baarle-Nassau, a town in the Netherlands which has 22 exclaves of Belgium in it, some of which have exclaves of the Netherlands in them