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TIL that there is a runway in Somaliland, a country that is not even recognised internationally, which is so long NASA rented it for 40 million dollars a year just in case the space shuttle could not make it back to America.

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OYd1 TIL that “in 2005, a Canadian teleco – Telus – blocked its customers from visiting a pro-union website during a labor dispute. Telus just happened to be the company "at the heart of the dispute.”
lkp5 TIL: Key deer is an endangered deer that lives only in the Florida Keys. Key deer easily swim between islands and because of their proximity have lost their fear to humans. It is the smallest North American deer.
GAGVJ TIL: The British Secret Service discovered that semen made a great invisible ink while under the leadership of Mansfield Smith-Cumming. His agents adopted the motto, "Every man his own stylo." They later stopped the use due to the smell and questions about agents' masturbatory habits.
lovdN TIL Doris Day believed she was born in 1924 until her 95th birthday, when the Associated Press found a birth certificate with the year 1922 on it
MA6m TIL When macaroni and cheese’s ingredients became widely accessible in North America, the fancy upperclass restaurants stopped serving it.