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TIL of "Prisencolinensinainciusol," an Italian pop song consisting of Gibberish and meant to sound like how English sounds to non-English speakers

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r6yM TIL that in 1902 Traian Vuia, a Romanian Engineer, designed his first flying machine, then presented his plan to the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1903, but was rejected with the comment: “The problem of flight with a machine which weighs more than air can not be solved and it is only a dream.”
e0j4E TIL that the darkest black created, an acrylic paint called "Black 3.0", was created by artists in retaliation of artist Anish Kapoor who had secured the exclusive right to use the aerospace material "Vantablack" in art projects, refusing all other artists who wanted to use it as well.
yVPrM TIL the U.S. Pizza Team competes in four skills: largest dough stretch, fastest pizza maker, freestyle acrobatics, and fastest box folding.
m1leO TIL that between 1718 and 1775 over 52,000 convicts were transported from the British Isles to America, mainly to Maryland and Virginia, to be sold as slaves to the highest bidder. Transported convicts made up a quarter of the British immigrants to colonial America in the 18th century.
Eg0yP TIL about George Bridgetower, a Polish-born black violinist and composer who rubbed shoulders with Beethoven, King George, and Thomas Jefferson