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TIL Walt Disney World has a permanent no-fly zone above it

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XE04Q TIL that modern fire departments/brigades have their origins from when property-insurance companies had their own fire departments.
BvBx TIL the Wright Bros, after numerous incident-free tests, were poised to make their pitch for the Army airplane contract. With Lt. Thomas Selfridge as passenger, the plane crashed, injuring Orville and killing Selfridge, resulting in the first airplane fatality. They received the contract anyway.
v1k57 TIL that a researcher was able to make a Computer Chip "evolve" in a 1996 experiment.
VM0G0 TIL KFC's Twitter only follows 6 Herbs and the 5 Spice Girls. 11 herbs and spices.
NXrp1 TIL that Barbara and Kenneth Handler, the children whom Barbie and Ken were named after, never played with their namesake dolls in their lives, as neither them nor their children ever liked them