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TIL Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, believed that his professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper from George Orwell. He received a B-.

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4k09R TIL Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the busiest airport in the world with over 100 million (104,653,451) passengers passing through in 2023. The busiest domestic route from the airport is Orlando Florida, while the busiest international route is Cancún, Mexico.
mEwv TIL:GM knew alcohol was the best anti-knock additive for gasoline before the invention of lead additives. They purposely used a poison instead, because alcohol was cheap and could not be patented.
OG9rg TIL of the Beneš decrees, laws which allow Slovakia to steal property from its ethnic Hungarians. The post-WWII era laws came from the former Czechoslovakia, where it was used to take property and citizenship away from ethnic Germans and Hungarians, and subject them to forced labor.
Ypr6P TIL During the 1905 Russian Revolution, the Tsar flirted with imposing a military dictatorship to avoid reform. When he asked Grand Duke Nicholas, a respected commander, to become dictator, the nobleman drew a pistol and threatened to shoot himself in the head if the Tsar further refused the reforms
BrjK TIL that Google Earth was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole, Inc., a company who were partially funded by the CIA via venture capital firm In-Q-Tel that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the CIA equipped with the latest in information technology.