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TIL Pinecones are a type of fruit

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699OJ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci invented the first glider with directional commands for the pilot. Many attempts have been made to build or model the original idea of Leonardo, however the actual flight potentialities are still unclear. This is last interpretation from the original sketch.
80db TIL the first American spy satellites literally dropped their film from space in a “film bucket” that was then scooped up in midair by a plane.
prMG TIL that Brazil, the only country in the world that still produces the Volkswagen Bus, will stop production by the end of this year
j6BQE TIL Ban'ei Racing is a form of Japanese horse racing in which draft horses pull heavy sleds up sand ramps, urged-on by jockeys balancing on the sleds.
N7L0J TIL more of the USS Nimitz UFO incident that the Pentagon declassified. The UFO hit speeds of 42,000 MPH and left the pilots "pretty weirded out". It also appears to show similarities to a second incident in 2014 with the USS Theodore Roosevelt.