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TIL The first person to windsurf across the Atlantic was also the captain of the only fatal Concorde incident.

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rRN5y TIL that the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer (Kintsukuroi) is based on the philosophy that the object is more beautiful because it was broken
60d8 TIL in 1980, the first 1 GB hard drive cost $40,000 and weighed over 500 pounds.
v10Y4 TIL that popular children's detective Cam Jansen has always eaten kosher and never solved a case on Saturdays, because author David Adler is an Orthodox Jew.
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