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TIL Jessica Cox is the world's first licensed armless pilot, as well as the first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association.

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J58l TIL as far back as the 1930s drivers could buy an “analog GPS” unit featuring moving maps of your location, route and destination - “Thought to be the first automated car-mounted navigation device, the gadget was tied into the speedometer in order to pace travel progress.”
Lmjr TIL On May 25th, 2015 a man discovered an orphaned baby moose in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. When he reported the calf to local authorities they shot the baby and blew up the carcasses of it, it’s dead mother and sibling to prevent grizzly bears from being drawn to the area.
awn6A TIL that there’s a monsoon flood in southeast Asia that’s 10x worse than Harvey, during the same period.
OJxg TIL a slave named Gordon ran away from a Mississippi plantation and used onions to throw bloodhounds off his scent. He went on to become a Union soldier during the Civil War. His photo was used by abolitionists to cast light on the brutality of slavery.
LMaZ TIL Deep Roy, the one actor who played all the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was required to do so many different takes for the film the Screen Actor’s Guild determined each Oompa Loompa was a seperate performance and he was paid $1,000,000 for his work.