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TIL Queen Elizabeth II still has 4 years to go to be the longest-reigning monarch of all time. Something aim for...

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M7rgA TIL about Spruce Creek Airport in Florida. A combined airport/neighborhood where every house connects to the runway via their own taxiway.
Mex6A TIL of Active Measures, a Soviet programme of political warfare used mainly to weaken the West by sowing discord amongst allies, fracture alliances in particular NATO and to tarnish the image of the United States in the eyes of the rest of the world.
78G9P TIL that the “myth of the clean Wehrmacht,” the notion that the regular German army wasn’t involved in Nazi war crimes, was promoted by US leadership to facilitate German rearmament amid Cold War tensions.
78eb TIL there is a website called Globe Genie that will randomly teleport you somewhere in the world on Google Maps in street view.
nWG7B TIL "feeling that something is wet is quite a feat because our skin does not have receptors that sense wetness"