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TIL The Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry

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EWAX TIL Richard Stallman, a software freedom activist and computer programmer, and creator of a good portion of GNU/Linux, has 15 honorary doctorates
DrMe TIL that in 1960, a man named Joe Kittinger ascended to the edge of space in a balloon’s gondola, parachuted back to earth and set the record for highest freefall
LEG0 TIL that Croatia voluntarily joined Nazi Germany in WW2 and perpetuated a now largely-forgotten Holocaust of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia. Their methods of genocide were so brutal that even the Nazis had to tell the Croatians to stop.
REYa TIL that the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air included a cat.
Mpnb TIL that the time traveling machine in Back to the Future was originally supposed to be a refrigerator, but director Robert Zemeckis feared that children would climb into their home fridges and suffocate themselves so they went with the DeLorean instead.