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TIL A rare photo of Amelia Earhart shows her riding a scooter in the 1930s with a published caption reading, “In the near future, we are told, no one will walk at all."

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j6Qwp TIL about the Akodessawa Fetish Market in Lome, Togo, the world's largest voodoo market ("Fetish" refers to an object believed to possess spiritual or supernatural powers). Fetishes for sale include monkey heads, dead birds, and other dead animal products.
N5b6 TIL that during the thunderous applause following his famous ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ speech to the to the House of Commons in 1940, Winston Churchill whispered to a colleague, “And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!”.
5kVQ TIL Braveheart has been described as one of the most historically inaccurate modern films. One historian took particular exception to the costumes and compared it to, “a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front”
VMPj0 TIL on several late 60's recordings, prominent jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman used his 10-year-old son to play drums, though he could have employed high-profile adult jazz drummers. He prized the child's joyful child musical curiosity over a more technically skilled adult
yB5a TIL that every Icelanders will receive a payout of 215 euro for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki. Iceland, being the only European nation to fully recover fully from the 2008 crisis, has recently jailed its 26th banker for causing the financial chaos.