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TIL in the mid-1950s, Hiller aircraft constructed flying platforms for an army-navy program. The pilot simply leaned in the desired direction in the platform would follow.

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ANMEx TIL Hanson's hit "MMMBop" was originally recorded as a slower, gloomier doo-wop influenced song. It was only after producer Steve Greenberg heard Beck’s album "Odelay", he enlisted The Dust Brothers to rework the song as we know it.
xv7o TIL when Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd read in a newspaper that a family was killed because of a faulty seal in their refrigerator (with toxic ammonia),they decided that they would invent a refrigerator without moving parts,hence no seals. This became the Einstein-Szilard refrigerator
0l9R TIL the Italian government is offering all 18 year olds a €500 ‘culture bonus,’ which can be spent on books, concert tickets, theatre tickets, cinema tickets, museum visits and even trips to the country’s national parks.
PYLRG TIL that in 2015, two men sold a fake Goya painting for €1.5 Million, only to find out all the money paid was counterfeit.
jNP4n TIL the actor who played The Hulk in the original 1970's TV series, Lou Ferrigno, has been voicing the character for decades, including every appearance in the MCU up to Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).