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The first black pilot in history Ahmet Ali Çelikten, Ottoman Empire, 1916.

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MQ9a TIL there is a camp for kids with Tourette Syndrome called Camp Twitch and Shout
jN1M TIL there is a list with hundreds of facts that could make the front page of r/todayilearned.
eA75 TIL Robert Taylor, inventor of soap-in-a-pump-bottle (Softsoap), knew larger competitors like Colgate would try to copy his product. In order to ensure they couldn’t copy him, he bought every small bottle hand-pump (100 million bottles) in the US. This resulted in a year of the market to himself
V7pm TIL that the term “grandfathered in” originated from Jim Crow laws which allowed men to be exempt from literacy tests and poll taxes if their grandfather was eligible to vote prior to 1866, effectively ensuring many illiterate white men could still vote, while black men couldn’t.
0gRL TIL that Valve refuses to become a publicly traded company because they don’t want to have their products influenced by people who fund them.