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TIL millionaire Michael O'Leary, CEO of airline Ryanair, has his own taxicab company with just one cab so he can legally use the bus lanes and avoid traffic jams

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nWGmP TIL Beryl Markham, a British-born Kenyan aviator, adventurer, and author, was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west (1936). Her memoir, West with the Night, was lauded by Hemingway and is celebrated for its lyrical writing, tales of African landscapes and flying escapades
wLkGY TIL Yellowstone National Park suffered 50+ years of ecological damage due to eradication of the Gray Wolf. After re-introduction, the environment is slowly stabilizing.
5VvO9 TIL skyscrapers kill over 1 billion birds per year
nYdo TIL… In 1954 the CIA deposed a democratically elected Guatemalan president and replaced him with a dictator to save investments in a banana company.
N7XaM TIL there was a Roman emperor named "Maximinus Thrax" who was allegedly over 8-feet tall and could fit bracelets on his thumb