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TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to fly in a plane - and he nearly fell out. He described it as ‘the bulliest experience of this life’

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mRgp TIL that the Norse people carried their dead through a “corpse door” feet first so the corpse couldn’t see where it was going. Preventing the dead from returning.
awApb TIL European PYREX is more resistant to breakage due to temperature change than USA PYREX because it is still made with the original borosilicate glass instead of soda glass (which can shatter in hot shards with sudden temp changes)
OnlR TIL that carrots aren’t actually good for your eyes… it’s just a myth that the British government fabricated during WWII. They wanted to keep their newly developed radar system secret from the Germans and had to find some way to explain how they were suddenly shooting down a lot more planes.
mxaoO TIL of Moctezuma's headdress, a featherwork crown which tradition holds belonged to Moctezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish Conquest. It is now in the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, and is a source of dispute between Austria and Mexico, as no similar pieces remain in Mexico.
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