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TIL the Denver International Airport is larger than Manhattan, operating on 53 square miles of land.

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pY4nO TIL the most expensive work of music ever sold was by the Wu-Tang Clan
VBALQ TIL that — through the lens of modern data analytics — a simple voice recording can yield thousands of speech parameters that may reveal a user’s biometric identity, body shape, personality traits, mental & physical health, emotions, drug habits, geographical origin, and socioeconomic status.
167bO TIL in 1949, eight observers documented every word and movement of a seven-year-old boy from rural Kansas for a sociological study
VB7mB TIL George Carlin’s 1972 “Seven Dirty Words” routine (“shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits”) led to a 1978 Supreme Court case affirming FCC power to regulate indecent broadcasts. Carlin defended “tits” as too harmless for the list, joking it sounded like a snack food.
VBQ6D TIL that the North Korean government runs an international restaurant chain to launder money