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TIL that despite looking spindly, the earliest Automobiles- like the Model T ford- were very rugged. This was because they were built in a time when paved roads were uncommon and thus the first automobiles were expected to traverse rough country roads and outright offroad conditions.

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oy9Y TIL King Charles VI of France and four lords dressed as wild men in costumes made of oil pitch-covered linen and hemp. His idiot or genius brother thrust a torch too closely in an attempt to identify them, thereby setting the men ablaze. The king was aside flirting with a lady and only he survived.
YpJMv TIL that during first lunar landing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were literally lost for the duration of being on the Moon. Neither NASA nor Michael Collins from Columbia module orbiting the Moon were able to locate the landed Apollo 11 for 22 hours it remained on the surface.
xVplw TIL The double-edged sword used by Thanos in Endgame was inspired by the ThanosCopter; a bright yellow helicopter with THANOS written on the tail that he piloted in early comics.
B46e TIL that Pitch is a viscous liquid which flows extremely slowly. In an experiment started in 1930, only 9 drops have dripped; the latest being April 17, 2014
5Vrxk TIL about the "boiling frog", an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly.