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NXYgJ Today I learned that, while A. A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh, named the character after his son's teddy bear, Pooh's design was actually based on another teddy bear named Growler, who was owned by the son of Milne's illustrator, E. H. Shepard.
GAMmj TIL Due to restrictions on Germany after WWII banning aircraft production, former bomber designer Ernst Heinkel temporarily switched to producing scooters, mopeds, and even the Heinkel Kabine bubble car. While his company did return to building planes, scooter production continued until 1965.
VBkYp TIL about the Scully effect, where women were inspired to take up STEM when they saw Scully on the X files; as a smart, skeptical woman and not a sidekick
ZOpR TIL Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ is best-selling science fiction novel of all time. Herbert was an ardent environmentalist and intentionally included ecological issues in his novels to stimulate his readers to think about critical environmental issues facing human kind.
781Ob TIL that in 2013, police divers in Custer County Oklahoma, found 6 bodies in two vehicles at the bottom of Foss lake. Three bodies in each car were identified as people who went missing in 1969 and 1970. Both cars were found to have gone off the road and into the lake. Ending a 45 year mystery.