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TIL the first ever balloon pilots were a rooster, a sheep and a duck

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x6XR7 TIL that King Charles III is not the first British royal to assume that name. Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the throne and grandson of King James II of England, was known as Charles III by his supporters.
16G0r TIL of Operation Pig Bristle. An Australian military operation conducted in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, the goal of which was to obtain paint brushes in response to a national shortage of brushes used in home construction.
156r TIL there is a patent troll company that claims ownership on WIFI sharing. It has being suing small businesses and hotels for a couple of years.
ANoyB TIL that “cute aggression” occurs when the human brain is overwhelmed by a cute animal or object, causing aggressive thoughts to counteract the overwhelming positive one.
QNKvX TIL thermal and night vision sniper scopes are illegal in California