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TIL The first Aeronautical Engineer for Boeing was an MIT educated Chinese naval officer hired in 1916

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KKZG TIL that after a Brazilian jiu jitsu teacher admitted to raping and killing a baby, a prison mob came together and sexually assaulted him.
GYp4G TIL that Edgar Allan Poe invented the first fictional detective and directly influenced Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, who made his first appearance 45 years after Poe's death.
DQ11V TIL about a town in Western Australia call Wittenoom that was so contaminated with asbestos that 80% of the population died and the whole town was declared a contaminated site. Only one resident still lives there
VMD4D TIL about a Japanese seafood processing company where workers can work whenever they want, and every week they report what tasks they dislike, which they are then not allowed to do.
R7Rx8 TIL the "artificial banana" flavor is based on a real kind of banana called the Gros Michel. It was actually the predominant commercial banana available in the US prior to the 1950s, until a plague mostly wiped them out and they were replaced with the Cavendish banana we have today.