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TIL the Wright brothers flew together just one time because they promised their father, who feared losing both sons in an airplane accident, that they would never fly together.

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Lk0Br TIL that when the Camaro name was unveiled by General Motors in 1966, 200 journalists present asked Chevrolet managers what it meant. They replied, “a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.”
LpGZ TIL that within 3 years of TV catching on in Fiji in 1995, over 11% of girls reported purging to lose weight in a country previously free of eating disorders
xYv1 TIL An Internet troll was jailed after mocking deaths of teenagers. Sean Duffy targeted Facebook tribute pages and posted videos on YouTube taunting the dead victims and their families. The court heard that Duffy has Asperger’s syndrome and lived a “miserable existence” drinking alcohol alone.
G0n5 TIL bunnies (foetuses and newborn) were declared fish by the Pope so monks, who had no access to fish in monasteries, had something to eat during Lent.
neZ0o TIL Paul Castellano, the future head of the Gambino crime family, allegedly ordered the 1975 murder of Vito Borelli, the boyfriend of his daughter Constance, because he compared him to Frank Perdue, the owner and spokesperson for Perdue Farms, and felt insulted