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TIL that international flights first started in the 1700s between European countries. You could even travel by air from the UK to France and Germany in just a matter of hours.

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GAnDE TIL about Sunflower Syndrome. A poorly understood type of epilepsy, sufferers are drawn to seeking out and looking at bright light (including the sun). This results in a brief hand-waving gesture across the face, or eye-flickering seizure up to hundreds of times a day.
v1DR7 TIL pencils have never had lead in them. Ever. It's always been graphite.
0y5M TIL Mila Kunis was 14 years old when she auditioned for “That 70’s Show”. She said she’d be 18 on her birthday, but never said which birthday
OooeX TIL that Magna Carta - held up as one of the founding documents of the English common law system - was annulled by the Pope within a few weeks
7rZ8L TIL Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Richard Wagner (1813-1883) were frenemies, and one of the last nails in the coffin of their friendship was Wagner's allusion that Nietzsche's ill health was the result of "excessive masturbation".