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TIL the owner of the Segway company died falling off a cliff - on a Segway.

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lxB5 TIL the inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.” - Philo T Farnsworth
eaGL TIL that the Sanskrit word for war literally means “a desire for more cows”
ADEb4 TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386, and still stands today.
a8BX0 TIL Hard Rock Cafe, which operates venues in 74 countries, is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida who bought it for $965M in '06. They then paid the state of FL $100M for the rights to allow Vegas-style table gambling in the Cafes.
X0J68 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.