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TIL: Denver International Airport, the largest in the US, is one and a half times the size of Manhattan

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0dbvM TIL there's a train station in Paris named after Rosa Parks
PJQE TIL ‘Eat out’ meant 'perform cunnilingus on’ 3 years before it was used to refer to 'dining away from home’
WkKvA TIL Partnership for a Drug-Free America, which used to air many PSAs through the 80s to the mid-2000s, was actually funded by alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies. The ads steered clear warnings about legal drugs being abused.
JYWev TIL of the four original members of The Killers, only three still write and compose new music, and only two still actively tour. (However, all four remain official members of the band.)
XE9er TIL in 1965 Timothy Leary was convicted of possession of Marijuana and sentenced to 30 years in prison and fined $30,000 (2020: $250,000)