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TIL that during Benito Mussolini's rule in Italy, homosexuals were rounded up and sent to the Tremiti archipelago.

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pYMle TIL that William E. Boeing bought the Heath Shipyard in Seattle in 1910 and transformed the boatyard into his first airplane factory. Working from a tent hangar, his first plane - the Boeing Model 1 - was built from spruce and canvas by former shipwrights and took flight in 1916.
0d68j TIL we’ve been trying to build the hyperloop since 1799
Jdel TIL that Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Chairman of Nestlé) said that the idea of water as a basic human right is “extreme”
X06dE TIL American Samoans hold U.S. passports mentioning they are U.S. nationals, but not U.S. citizens
kJpv1 TIL that if a wooden shop has been submerged in salt water for a long period of time, once brought to land and dried they can literal crumble into dust.