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TIL ancient Mexicans were the only New World civilization who invented the wheel, and it is the only known instance of the wheel having been invented independently of the Sumerian version.

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Br1JK TIL Lamborghini started as a tractor company. In the early 1960’s, its founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini, unimpressed with sports cars of the time, set out to build his own. He was also told, “You may be able to drive a tractor, but you will never be able to handle a Ferrari,” by Enzo Ferrari.
GXd4 TIL “House of the Rising Sun” was originally written from the perspective of a woman. The “House” most likely referred to a brothel where she went to work off the gambling debts of her “sweetheart”
EgbX0 TIL During WWII Steinway & Sons built a piano model called the Victory Vertical. It used only 10% of the metal needed by traditional pianos, and it was so lightweight and compact that it was able to be carried by four people or dropped by parachute.
neDNo TIL Alice Coachmen was the first black woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in the high jump competition. She was also the first African-American woman selected to the US Olympic Team.
x4bB TIL that baked beans started with a bean native to the Americas exported to France/Italy in the 1500’s, were brought back to America with European colonization, then exported to the UK as an “American delicacy” in the late 1800’s, and are now reimported to the US as “UK Baked Beans”