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l7Rr1 TIL about the Earth Inductor Compass. Patented in 1912, obsolete by the mid-1930s, it is a type of compass that uses the principle of electromagnetic induction with the Earth's magnetic field. One was used by Charles Lindbergh in his solo flight NYC to Paris in 1927.
NrJ1 TIL the story behind the book “I love you forever” was originally written as a song for Robert Munsch’s two stillborn babies.
R5W88 TIL Walt Disney Imagineering was hired to create the early concepts for Space Center Houston. It opened to the public in 1992, billed more as an interactive museum than a theme park and visitors could take backstage tours to see astronauts at work
vP0Mx TIL the British government turned down rescuing over a million Hungarian Jews from the Gestapo in exchange for trucks, coffee, tea, cocoa, and soap
nedxd TIL The current owner of the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" flying car is director Peter Jackson. He could would drive cast members of The Hobbit films around in the car while playing the main theme song through a sound system.