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TIL that Airbus used to be multiple aerospace companies from France, Germany, the UK, and Spain. The companies merged in 1970 to compete against US aerospace companies.

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e0vM5 TIL that out of the top 30 100m sprint times, only 9 were run by athletes not associated with doping, all 9 are by Usain Bolt.
d8Zjd TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
b6Lk7 TIL the lyrics to the song "Winter Wonderland" were written by Richard Bernhard Smith while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis treatment. He would die of the disease a year after the song was first recorded.
b66AE TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf tried to estimate pi using a needle experiment. He conducted experiments throwing the needle 5000 times, obtaining a value of 3.1596
kG4B TIL in 1927 the US Supreme Court ruled it constitutional for the government to forcefully sterilize mentally handicapped people