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TIL the modern gaming chair design originated from DXRacer repurposing car seats, after Chrysler discontinued the vehicles they were designed for

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grOGD TIL about the Schienenzeppelin, a train powered by a rear-mounted propeller similar to a helicopter, capable of reaching 140 km/h (87 mph). Designed in 1930s Germany, it was intended to be a futuristic mode of transportation but never entered service due to technical issues and WWII
yQD0V TIL that a brilliant young British physicist, Henry Moseley, was killed in World War I only at an age of 27. Because of that, during the WW II it was British government policy to give "bright, young scientists" safer job to keep them alive.
PYwGe TIL Someone in the distant past took a poop in a cave, and then 14,000 years later scientists in an advanced civilization are now fawning all over that piece of poop, making it perhaps one of the most valuable pieces of poop in history.
oBByA TIL that Tiger Wood's real first name is Eldrick and was given the nickname "Tiger" after a Vietnamese soldier and friend of his father’s.
1JQV TIL in 2003, Kirk Jones drunkenly swam over the Niagara Falls, earning himself a $2,300 fine and a lifetime ban from Canada.