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TIL that ‘SUX’ remains the identifier for the airport in Sioux City, Iowa, although petitions to change it were filed in ‘98 and ‘02. The city was dissatisfied with the alternatives offered by the FAA, one of which was ‘GAY’

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rN15W TIL that the last woman to be executed by burning at the stake in England was not killed for witchcraft, but for counterfeiting coins, seen as a crime against the king, and therefore treason. Her husband was hanged for the same offence, and the women’s sentence was changed to hanging the year after.
x8Mg TIL distance-running has skyrocketed in popularity 3 times in modern history, each time in the midst of a major crisis: during the Great Depression, in the 1970s during a recession, race riots, assassinations, and Vietnam, and 1 year after 9/11 it became the fastest-growing outdoor sport in the US.
W6po TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous line: “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people.”
yQLm8 TIL of Walraven van Hall, a Dutch banker who during WW2 set up a shadow bank to finance the Dutch resistance movement.
XnJ8 TIL the rabies virus has been known to cause a man to uncontrollably ejaculate up to 30 times a day.