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TIL Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, who is best known for creating James Bond

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5YoGD TIL the word 'millionaire' is a French word coined in 1719 to describe those working in the Mississippi Company earning millions of livres which is one of the earliest examples of an economic bubble
xV9B7 TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange
LkLOv TIL Astronaut Tom Jones carried a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey" into space during a shuttle mission in 2001. The astronauts read the book in their spare time and discussed which of 2001’s technologies had arrived
mx8bx TIL of Genie Wiley, a girl who was raised in a dark isolated room with no indication of an outside world for the first 13 years of her life, her father was incredibly abusive, and when authorities rescued her she couldn't speak at all and only made infantile noises.
R5bK6 TIL that there are over 20 known states of matter, not just solid, liquid, gas and plasma