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TIL that wearing buffs/gaiters is worse than not wearing a mask at all.

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R54D8 Til Marcus Licinius Crassus, often called the richest man in Rome in time of Julius Ceasar, created first ever Roman fire brigade. However the brigade wouldn't put out the fire until the owner would sell the property in question to Crassus for miserable price.
8kXV TIL that FedEx’s current CEO and founder Frederick W. Smith didn’t have enough money to keep the company afloat, he took the remaining 5k and brought it to Vegas and by Monday morning they had 32k, enough to fuel their planes and stay in business long enough for another round of funding.
4XRxo TIL in 2011 at a rural Western NY high school, 14 students came down with an illness: verbal outbursts, tics, seizures, and speech problems. Fears about the cause of the outbreak drew national media attention. One girl had Tourette syndrome. The rest had mass psychogenic illness: mass hysteria.
xW7g TIL that a recent educational experiment suggested that reading “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” increased children’s likelihood of lying. On the other hand, reading a book on George Washington and the cherry tree decreased this likelihood dramatically.
Y78RP TIL that the first aircraft autopilot was developed in 1912. The autopilot connected a gyroscopic heading indicator and attitude indicator to hydraulically operated elevators and rudder. It permitted the aircraft to fly straight and level on a compass course without a pilot's attention