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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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96LQ TIL that Froot Loops are different colors, but they are all the same favor.
Db7e TIL the scientist, Clair Patterson, who helped develop the atomic bomb, also saved humanity by stopping the use of Leaded Gasoline.
d8eLK TIL of William Harrison, whose accused murderers were executed in 1661, only for Harrison to reappear in 1662, showing he was never actually dead. The events lead to the end of murder convictions without a body for 250 years in the UK.
m1JMv TIL that mini-horses are also employed as service animals and are protected in law much the same as a service dog.
wQ8J TIL All domestic cattle on Earth originated from one single herd of about 80 animals 10,500 years ago