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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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P1bBO TIL Abraham Lincoln was the tallest ever US president at 6’4 / 193 cm
1apb8 TIL that Nikola Tesla predicted the modern cell phone in 1926: ¨we shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but... we shall see and hear one another as though we were face to face... a man will be able to carry one in his pocket¨
4X4Gw TIL due to a miscalculation, the largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States was accidentally three times stronger than expected. This resulted in most of the test equipment being destroyed or vaporized rendering the experiment a failure.
oROM7 TIL newborn babies(both sexes) can lactate because of the mother’s hormones. It’s called neonatal milk or witch’s milk.
egQ5 TIL ‘It’s always sunny’ was only given $200 for their original pilot episode