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TIL Fedoras originated as a popular fashion among women’s-rights activists.

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R7oL9 TIL Apollo 11 landed on the moon just 66 years after the Wright Brother's first flight.
pLZb TIL in 2010 an MI6 spy was found dead, his naked body inside a padlocked bag in his flat in London. The Metropolitan Police concluded that he had accidentally locked himself in the bag and died as a result.
8ePwV TIL - Ants sometimes lay a trail of pheromones that circles back onto itself, trapping all the other ants in a death spiral where the entire colony runs to death.
bNkp TIL Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi who was considered to be the most powerful woman of the classical world, has had almost nothing recorded about her process because authors from the period treated it as common knowledge with no need to explain.
8aKGa TIL In 1975, Jack Hetherington wrote an influential physics paper and added his cat as the co-author after realizing he used the plurals "we" and "our" in his paper.