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TIL that the Wright Brothers' first patent wasn't for their airplane. It was for the system of controls they built to control their airplane.

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d8bWZ TIL that Red Cloud, a Chief of the Lakota, was the only American Indian in the West to win a war against the US, inflicted the largest military defeat suffered by the US on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and was the most photographed American Indian in the 19th century.
6oAW TIL that during the Vietnam War, American troops would eat small amounts of C4 plastic explosive to get high.
R5vnQ TIL the casting coach and fake taxi porn was once used to bring young women to porn using those same tricks which I thought was fake. Now it is just dark. I never thought it was real.
9Y196 TIL the FBI agent, Robert Hansen, who spied for the USSR also allowed his neighbor to watch him and his wife have sex, had a long term relationship with a stripper, and was an active member of Opus Dei.
XmRD TIL that a woman was trapped in her body for 6 years before anyone noticed. In 1966 someone saw that she was trying to smile after hearing a dirty joke. Julia Tavalaro learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at age 68, 37 years after the stroke.