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TIL about Ivo Zdarsky, a man who escaped the Soviet Bloc in a homemade airplane

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VB4E4 TIL the Killer Rabbit in the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was inspired by an image on the facade of Notre Dame Cathedral. The image is part of a medieval tradition in illuminated manuscripts where killer rabbits attack humans and seek justice.
8aokG TIL Japan has a process to clean and check eggs for safety that allows them to be eaten raw, without getting salmonella
Brxer TIL of Hind al-Husseini, a Palestinian woman who rescued 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre. She converted her grandfather's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.
D11nP TIL about Gwynplaine, as played by Conrad Veidt (The Man Who Laughs - 1928), who inspired the creation of The Joker.
9wljB TIL the 1902 Rickshaw Controversy. After colonizing the Philippines, Americans tried to "improve" urban public transportation by replacing privately operated horse-cabs with publicly-funded Rickshaws. It failed as Filipinos thought it turned them into beasts of burden, and revolted against the idea.