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TIL that Walt Disney came up with the modern ski trail designations (green circle, blue square, black diamond).

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rRWgx TIL of William Kamkwamba, who taught himself to build windmills from library books. He built his first windmill, at age 15, out of junk from the scrap yard and brought power to his Malawian village. Later on he built another windmill to power water pumps to irrigate fields.
8aYNZ TIL that Alexander Hamilton, in addition to helping write the Constitution and being first Treasury Secretary, also was the commander of the entire U.S. Army for six months.
r1bM TIL the story of Santa and his flying reindeer can be traced to hallucinogenic or “magic” mushrooms.
oxKo TIL In 1942 there was a man called the Phantom Barber, who would break into peoples houses in Mississippi at night and cut their hair.
dpV8 TIL a team of scientists suppressed genes for beak development in a chicken embryo to find out what bird ancestors looked like – and the embryo grew into a chicken with the face of a dinosaur.