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TIL In London, it’s cheaper to live in Madrid and commute via plane four days a week than it is to live in the capital.

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awE6Z TIL Warren Buffett suggested Prop 13 be repealed or changed to balance the state budget. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, believing that such an act would be inadvisable politically & could end his gubernatorial career, said, "I told Warren that if he mentions Prop. 13 again he has to do 500 sit-ups."
xVM0o TIL sarla thakral was the first indian women to be a pilot at the age of 21 in 1936, pre independence india. She got married at 16 but persisted to become a pilot. She had a daughter when she became a certified pilot.
6gAw TIL the urination system on the Apollo space suits involved a condom that came in 3 sizes: “small,” “medium,” and “large.” When astronauts only took the “large,” they were renamed to “large,” “gigantic,” and “humongous.”
m1Nrv TIL After the Royal London Wax Museum in Victoria BC closed in 2010, the museum's general manager kept more than 200 wax figures in his basement. Each one has medical grade glass eyes, real human hair, and Queen Victoria has a prominent spot at his dining table
lZna TIL the township of Thierville, France suffered no losses in country’s last five wars: WW1, the Franco-Prussian War, WW2, the First Indochina War, and the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these wars returned home.