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TIL Pixar's "UP" Was Originally About Two Princes, a Floating City, and a strange large bird

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eXgJ TIL that an encrypted note sent on June 6, 1944 was found attached to a pigeon skeleton in 2012. The message has not been deciphered.
xVpW1 TIL the Wright Bros. famous first flight at Kitty Hawk actually took place on an island off North Carolina
9Y4mD TIL there was once an appetite suppressing candy called Ayds, in the late 1980's due to public awareness of the aids crisis, similarities in name and the fact both could cause weight loss, sales plummeted by as much as 50%. Resulting in the eventual discontinuation of the brand.
neao7 TIL that Freddie Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS in late April 1987, and not before the famous Live Aid performance, like the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' biopic told.
YNPA TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.