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TIL that Rolls-Royce is one of the top manufacturers of aircraft engines for civil and military aviation.

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J1naV TIL somebody has won the Kissinger Death Tontine, where people predict(ed) the death of Henry Kissinger after donating to an organization that "undoes some of the damage of US imperialism", winner gets some booze
694PJ TIL in the Netherlands there is a small community of four people living in the middle of the Afsluitdijk, the large causeway/dam that separates the North Sea from Lake Ijssel.
wo5A7 TIL that the chemist Alexander Shulgin invented over 200 psychedelic drugs , self-administered them and wrote a book the experience he had with each of them
xVQ6w TIL Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, was just 19 when he inherited the title of president-for-life from his father. He was forced from power but was allowed to live in the obscurity of a Port-au-Prince suburb, freely roaming the capital as he pleased until his death
xGr1 TIL that Leland Stanford had the privilege of driving the Golden Spike that completed the Transcontinental Railroad. Stanford had never used a sledgehammer, and he missed the spike.