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TIL of The Blackwood Brothers, a southern gospel quartet. In the 1950s, after some members died in a recreational plane crash, the group was the first to customize a bus to make travel spacious and comfortable for entertainers, thereby inventing the customized "Tour Bus".

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QNlWd TIL baby bottles are at least 3000 years old. Egyptian pottery from 1500 BCE depicts women feeding babies with animal horns, and archaeological evidence shows that ceramic vessels were used as early as 1200 BCE to feed babies with animal milk.
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n1kP TIL the San Marino national football team have played over 120 competative matches in their history and won 0 of them