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TIL On 5 August 1888, 39-year-old Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim with her sons Richard and Eugen, in a Model III, without telling her husband. This became the First ever cross-country automobile journey.

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9Y51p TIL European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN, widely known for its project, the Large Hadron Collider (and popularized in the film Angels & Demons), it is also where the World Wide Web began as a CERN project named ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and Robert Cailliau in 1990.
6En9J TIL of Robert Maheu, an American businessman and lawyer, who worked for the FBI and CIA, and as the chief executive of Nevada operations for the industrialist Howard Hughes. He recruited the mob to assassinate Fidel Castro and his investigative agency was a model for television's Mission Impossible.
p84jA TIL: Every branch of the US military has a "Hollywood Liason Office" to coordinate cooperation with film and TV shows to "to accurately depict military stories and make sure sensitive information isn’t disclosed."
KvB6 TIL that Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, had a baseball-sized growth on his neck. It was benign but could not be removed due to its location. Official photos of the “Eternal President” were therefore taken from a leftward angle to hide the growth. (Candid photos are in comments.)
mxAQY TIL Pungents are small bottles used to carry smelling salts and other odorous things. Dating back to at least the 19th century, pungents were often decorated to look like seahorses and dolphins, among other things.