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TIL Japan and especially Tokyo was not considered a clean place until the 1970s

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6EJL8 TIL the reason that some semi-truck trailer doors have quilted patterns on their rear doors is to reduce glare on the vehicles following them.
woXOW TIL convicted NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere has had many girlfriends who died untimely and suspicious deaths. One girlfriend, who simply disappeared, was last seen alive at a NXIVM meeting.
xVRpo TIL that the first powered airplane flight was not by the Wright Brothers in 1903, but by English aeronautical inventor John Stringfellow, who in 1848 flew for 30 meters in controlled and level powered flight in Somerset. Textbooks are being changed to reflect this new research and give him credit.
0jKy TIL that the phrase “Great minds think alike” is only half of it. The full phrase is “Great minds think alike, but fools rarely differ.”
VBwdm TIL about Seligmannite, a rare metallic mineral named in honor of Gustav Seligmann who was a mineral collector, amateur crystallographer, author, and banker.