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TIL the Wright Brothers were notorious patent trolls who tried to ruin everyone who tried to innovate with flight. Also see American Innovations.

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b6Ebj TIL Biggest NBA brawl in history left players with $11.2 million fine and caused numerous game suspensions
PyZ TIL Jamie Foxx was such a good joke teller his second grade teacher used him as a reward- be good and Jamie will perform for us.
Br9Kd TIL that showman P.T. Barnum got his start by purchasing an enslaved woman named Joice Heth. She was in her 70’s but he claimed she was 161 years old and had been the nanny of George Washington. He exhibited her until her death, and then allowed the public to view her autopsy for 50 cents each
P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.
lo0aV TIL about misophonia; a recently proven brain abnormality which means sufferers have a hatred of sounds such as eating, chewing, loud breathing or even repeated pen-clicking (as well as other trigger noises).