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TIL only 128 people in the United States are licensed to fly blimps

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9nDM TIL in 1987 Jamie Lee Curtis invented a diaper with a moisture proof pocket for wipes, but would not let her invention be marketed until companies sold biodegradable diapers.
NJXP TIL of a quarantined leper colony in Hawaii that, when the patients were cured, was made into an independent county where the patients could stay as residents. To this day no one under the age of 16 is allowed in, and the only visits allowed are officially sanctioned tours.
M7xn8 TIL: People with severe mental illness are no more likely to engage in violent behavior than the general population, but are more likely to be the victims of violence themselves
9YNDB TIL that animal populations are growing in Chernobyl since humans left. Among them, a herd of Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild horse in the world, introduced in 1998.
J1DM8 TIL in 1950 some Scottish students stole back the Stone of Scone, a Scottish relic seized by an English king centuries ago. Upon seeing it gone, authorities closed the Scottish border for the first time in 400 years, but once they caught the students, they decided not to prosecute, fearing backlash.