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TIL that Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.

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R0al TIL that, according to the Solomon Curve, drivers traveling 5 mph (8 km/h) above the average speed of traffic are statistically the least likely to be involved in a crash while crash risk increases dramatically when traveling below the average speed.
5Yl98 TIL in 1901, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel out of wood, old hacksaw blades and bicycle spokes; using it to test more than 200 wing shapes hand made from pieces of sheet steel and wax. The data it generated was critical to their first powered flight two years later.
MeA1A TIL of Hellfire Clubs, 18th century social clubs, extant in UK, where men and women gathered to perform socially unacceptable actions while simultaneously mocking religion, satirically, in a time when it was blasphemous to do so.
Wk984 TIL that the morse code symbol for the letter V, dit-dit-dit-dah, is the same as the famous motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which can be represented by the Roman Numeral V.
0wLMN TIL Wally Amos, of Famous Amos cookies, was also the host of an adult learning program, Learn to Read on PBS in the late ‘80s. He has been advocating and promoting literacy for nearly his entire life.