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TIL Airport noise complaints come from a small group of mostly the same individuals (page 53 of linked document)

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0dXGM TIL that 70k years ago, the human race came dangerously close to extinction after a supervolcano eruption, with only 15k survivors on the planet
GlRE TIL that there is a completely unique English dialect spoken only on Tangier Island, Virginia. It is said to be almost the same as when the island was settled in 1686 and can be unintelligible even to native English speakers.
KYv5a TIL World War I trenches were constructed of sandbags, planks of wood, plaited wicker, tangled barbed wire, or even just mud. The trench systems on the Western Front were about 475 miles long, extending from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps, though not in a continuous line.
e0y96 TIL Brazilian billionaire Chiquinho Scarpa decided 2013 to bury his $500,000 car. This led to an outcry as he rather ruin his car than donate it. But at the burial Scarpa revealed his bluff to the press, saying that anyone who refuse to donate their organs bury something far more valuable than a car
XlBD TIL Pope Francis used to be a nightclub bouncer