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TIL A German teenager landed his aircraft on Moscow’s Red Square in 1987

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E1W9d TIL "Saudade" is the word for being nostalgic about past relationships that are hard to let go. It's the recollection of feelings/experiences/relationships/etc that brought happiness, but also the pain of separation from them. It acknowledges that longing for the past would detract from the future.
OoPe6 TIL that the theme song from Tetris is actually a Russian folk song. It is titled Korobeiniki, and describes a peddler who offers a girl various goods in exchange for sex, then agrees to marry her before being murdered by a forest ranger.
NX8LQ TIL the smallest statue in London of two mice fighting over a piece of cheese might have been created to honor two construction workers who died in the 1860's when they were fighting over a sandwich and fell from the building 🐀🧀
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Y79Gr TIL in May of 2024 the U.S. Senate authorized more flights to Washington National with an 88-4 vote. At the time senators Kaine & Warner said the Senate ‘abdicated its responsibility to protect the safety of the 25 million people’ who annually fly through Reagan airport, known as DCA