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TIL Harry Houdini was an aviation pioneer and the pilot of the first controlled, powered flight in Australia

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awYPM TIL of eccentric English aristocrat Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners [1883-1950]. A talented composer, writer and artist, Lord Berners had a clavichord in his Rolls-Royce, paper flowers in his garden, had tea with a horse and would drive around his estate in a pig mask to scare the locals.
ol0o TIL that in Luxembourg you must be trilingual (French, German, Luxembourgish) to graduate secondary school
oRv6R TIL that Jimmy Page was told that his new band would be a disaster and "go down like a lead balloon." He changed the spelling of "lead" to "led" (so it wouldn't be mispronounced "leed") and changed "balloon" to "zeppelin", naming the band Led Zeppelin
9dp6 TIL that in Bangalore, India, the government shames property tax defaulters by sending drummers to makes noise and wave banners outside of their properties until they pay their taxes.
69AQZ TIL that Northeast Greenland National Park holds the title as the world's largest park. If it were a country, it would rank as the 29th largest by land area.