Post * QNnEL — Curious Curator

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TIL Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to fly in an airplane (although his flight was a year after his was out of office). There's video, even.

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kOPG7 TIL HDMI charges its licensed manufacturers $10,000 per year plus $0.15 per cable, reduced to $0.05 if the HDMI logo is on the socket.

M7jlA TIL: James Carter received a $20,000 royalty check for a song in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" that he had sung 40 years earlier but didn't remember.

loMAB TIL That in 1614, historian Chimalpahin of Aztec decent, recorded that Spanish soldier Vizcaíno was stabbed by a Japanese Samurai in Acapulco, Mexico

9OoQ TIL after cutting phone lines, snipers attacked a California power station, taking out 17 transformers. They disappeared one minute before the police arrived, never to be caught or identified.

nWKm9 TIL that 13 US states have laws prohibiting the sale or trading of cars on Sundays. These so-called 'blue laws' were originally meant to keep people pious and promote church-going.