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TIL That GPS is wholly controlled by the USA and can be ‘switched off’ at any time.

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E1rGP TIL about Pentti Linkola, the "first ecofascist" who promotes drastic population reduction for the survival of our specie.
vPYd7 TIL: The Crown (2021), Schitt's Creek (2020) and Angels in America (2003) are the only programs to win all seven of their respective major Emmy categories in one year - directing, writing, all four acting categories and overall series.
LkemV TIL Ronald Reagan at 69, "pledged to resign if he became "senile"".
Wk10B TIL that in 1938, 25 students and a school bus driver were killed when a school bus driver didn't check for a train at a crossing. As a result all school buses stop and open their doors to look and listen to assure no trains are coming. As a result no such tragedies have since occurred.
4Ek5 TIL that a popular Japanese guitarist was so well-loved that 50,000 people turned out for his funeral, 3 committed copycat suicide in the week following his death, and that a museum about him was open for five years