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TIL Charles Lindbergh was involved in the three largest “media events” to occur between WWI and WWII: his trans-Atlantic flight; his son’s kidnapping/ransom; and the Sand Cave incident.

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LQeAd TIL the first reference to the Grinch was not in How The Grinch Stole Christmas. He first appeared in the book Scrambled Eggs Super (1953). He later appeared in a 1955 poem "The Hoobub And The Grinch", before the famous story of him was published
e0mDJ TIL about Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road - Ross went from an Eagle Scout to running a billion dollar underground drug market
gMvPD TIL the bluest blue (to date) was accidentally discovered when a researcher received a grant to explore novel materials for electronics applications and tried to heat together oxides of manganese, yttrium, and indium at two thousand degrees Fahrenheit
0w4wR TIL the location of the world's tallest tree is kept secret to keep the tree safe.
QNJLM TIL The infamous sound German JU-87 dive bombers made while in a dive is due to a siren installed on the plane, and not just the sound of the plane diving on a bomb run.