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TIL sci fi author Jack Williamson coined the terms terraforming (1942), psionics (1952), and was one of the first people to use the term genetic engineering.

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RBk9 TIL in Finland, speeding tickes are calculated on a percentage of a person’s income. This causes some Finnish millionaires to face fines of over $100,000.
y1B8 TIL when Napoleon’s Marshall; Michel Ney was being sentenced to execution after Waterloo, Ney’s lawyer in his defense argued that Ney was now a Prussian and could not be tried by French laws, Ney interrupted him saying, “I am French and I will remain French”. Ney was later executed
OGQre TIL Ford actually didn't invent the first combustion engine car. Benz Patent-Motorwagen did in 1886 almost 30 years before Ford releases the Model T.
NX6bb TIL: Harvard recently discovered their copy of The Magna Carta, in their collection since the 1940's, is actually one of seven original copies (one of only five in tact copies) from 1300's
e0r15 TIL the ocean liner "Stockholm" that collided with and sunk the Italian liner "Andrea Doria" in 1956 is still in use today as a cruise ship