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TIL the world's first package tour was day trip from Leicester to Loughborough

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oBa07 TIL of French inventor Charles-Émile Reynaud. He invented the Théâtre Optique, a device for projecting film made several years before the cinematograph (the first widespread projector). Reynaud made the first animated films ever but threw them into a river in a fit of depression. All but one is lost
EMwx TIL at Fatburger, you can order a “Hypocrite"—a veggie burger topped with crispy strips of bacon.
OGDpa TIL of Joan Deebank, British Columbia's oldest high school graduate at 92 years old. In 1939, her parents forced her to drop out. She became a maid, served in the British Army, emigrated to Canada, and had four children before re-enrolling in an adult program
lorAK TIL In 2011 it came to light a forger had fooled one of NYC's most elite art galleries into selling $80M worth of fake art despite the forger misspelling Jackson Pollock in the signature (dropped the "c", whoops!) and using paint that was not available at the time the painting was allegedly painted
Mekka TIL modern digital communications systems insert a fake 'hiss' into silences so the listener knows the call hasn't dropped or the transmission stopped.