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TIL one airport (SAV) in the US has 2 headstones embedded in the runway from an expansion where the next of kin refused to exhume the bodies of a small family cemetery

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6vKY TIL in July 1943, an injured Australian soldier single-handedly carried 12 American casualties to safety whilst under heavy fire at Mt. Tambu
Xw8 TIL that cats are directly responsible, over the years, for the extinction of no fewer than 33 bird species worldwide. Meow
Mx80 TIL Isaac Newton invented calculus when Cambridge University was closed due to the bubonic plague.
Yv7A TIL that in Rome, the ancient temple where Julius Caesar was murdered is now a sanctuary for hundreds of cats
wYb6 TIL that M&M stands for Mars and Murrie’s