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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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QNr8E TIL about Benjamin Hornigold, a pirate whose crew once attacked a ship solely to steal all their hats because the pirates had gotten drunk and thrown theirs overboard.
8GZZ TIL of an Internet Mystery involving a Cicada which has never been solved.
5oP TIL Christopher Columbus recorded a UFO sighting in his journal en route to discovering America in 1492.
e0EXg TIL Cary Elwes' ancestor, John Elwes, is credited as the inspiration for Charles Dickens' character, Ebenezer Scrooge
XEaZD TIL that to create kung fu movie sound effects, a number of people would sit in front of a screen playing the movie with boxing gloves, pieces of wood and blankets (seen in this documentary at around 11:49).