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TIL In perfecting the design of their first aircraft, the Wright Brothers built and tested prototypes inside of a Wind Tunnel - to which they credited the bulk of their aircraft’s success.

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JYjG1 TIL A woman was convicted of murder of her son. Authorities suspected antifreeze poisoning. After she went to prison, Stallings gave birth to another child; he was diagnosed with methylmalonic acidemia, a medical condition that can mimic antifreeze poisoning. Stallings was then released from prison.
GYAgj TIL Eastern Michigan Football signed a defensive lineman legally named Lion King
BrW1x TIL that Larry Flynt has sent a monthly copy of Hustler to every congressional office since 1983, and members of Congress can't stop receiving the magazines—because a court agreed that it was within Flynt's right to petition the government under the First Amendment.
J1g6l TIL that there is evidence that Neanderthals may have been a seafaring people, sailing from the mainland to the island of Crete 130,000 years ago.
G6KJ TIL A Chemistry Ph.D. student turned her thesis into a comic so that her friends and family could understand it better.