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TIL that the international airport in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (ULN), the largest international air facility in the country was named after Chinggis Khaan (Genghis Khan) to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the establishment of a Mongolian State on 21 December 2005.

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R7Ebj TIL opossums have 50 teeth – the most of any mammal. They are also the most varied in size of any mammal, with males in the northern range weighing up to twenty times as much as a female in the southern range.
jNYen TIL that famous jazz drummer Buddy Rich was once admitted to a hospital and was asked if he was allergic to anything. He answered: "Yeah, country music."
e0nYb TIL doves were traditionally released during the opening ceremony of the Olympics games, until Seoul 1988. Several of the birds, instead of flying away, settled on the cauldron housing the Olympic flame and were subsequently incinerated in front of the crowd when it was lit.
l77La TIL nearly 4 million chickens, 726,000 pigs, and 29,000 cattle die in transport every year – just in the U.S.
WkyVN TIL that cows were used for radiation testing of early cell phones. Farmers were paid to have high-powered phones strapped to their cows head 24/7. A single engineer worked full time to chase the cows and change the batteries.