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v1PwD TIL: The Soviet Union built the first supersonic airliner (before the Concorde) and it was a disastrous failure
eWAg TIL the long extinct Dodo derives its name from Dutch exlporers, which loosely translates to ‘Fat Ass’.
x6N4o TIL Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher, would regularly walk around the city during bombing raids to "ponder his destiny". During one such aerial bombardment in 1945, a shell fragment damaged his spinal cord and he became paralysed from the waist down, remaining so for the rest of his life.
nWmAB TIL the Cadillac Automobile Company was founded by Henry Ford
PYwdG TIL the famous 'tank man' incident happened June 5, 1989 - one day after the Tiananmen Square Massacre