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TIL the children's song "Alouette" is about pulling apart a small songbird piece by piece

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e0ObL TIL Palma de Mallorca Airport in Spain only reached 1 million passengers for the first time in 1962. Today, the airport serves 29 million passengers per year & during the busiest days in the Summer handles as many movements as London-Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe.
woG8M TIL that the Romans were among the first to introduce a standardized system of measuring time through hours. But they didn't have a fixed hour duration throughout the entire year. Instead, they adjusted the length of an hour based on the length of daylight. A winter hr was shorter than a summer hr.
yQ118 TIL that within the United States, each state, territory and federal district sets the marriage age in its jurisdiction. As of January 2022 in nine states there is no statutory minimum age when all exemptions were taken into account. Between 2000 and 2018, nearly 300,000 minors were legally married.
m6ox TIL that India’s richest man lives in a 27-story 400,000 sq ft tower with 4 family members and 600 staff. The 550ft tall building contains a 168-car garage spanning 6 floors, 9 elevators, 4 stories of hanging gardens, a 50-seat theater, an artificial snow room, and 3 helipads, valued at $2bn USD.
X0G0D TIL that a single Spongebob episode takes around 9-11 months to produce.