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TIL aircraft inventor Santos-Dumont believed air travel would bring peace to the world so he filed no patents and offered his designs free yet burned all his designs when he was accused of being a German spy during WWI and committed suicide after seeing aircraft used in warfare in the 30’s.

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NOYQ TIL: The car was considered an environmental hero in urban areas when first developed because of the overwhelming problem of horse poop.
4XnkJ TIL paparazzi once misidentified Debbie Harry (lead singer of Blondie) for film star Lindsay Lohan. When it happened in 2012, Lohan was 25 years old and Harry was 66.
yVVaw TIL of Lauren Stratford (Wilson) who wrote a book claiming that she was in a Satanic cult in which she sacrificed her own child. After magazine reporters exposed her as never having a child, she changed her name and claimed to be a holocaust survivor, and was exposed again by the same magazine.