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TIL Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport was the world's first airport to hit 100 million passengers in year, doing so in 2015

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9YEJ6 TIL in the show The Office, Kelly, Ryan, and Toby work in the annex because they are also writers of the show and don't have time to do background work.
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jGdN TIL Richard Nixon described Bohemian Grove as “the most faggy goddamn thing you can ever imagine.”
OYQ1 TIL that the Sami people of Northern Finland have a unit of measurement called the ‘poronkusema’ - the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.