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TIL The first person to fly a powered aircraft in Australia was escape artist Harry Houdini

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growD TIL that the Cuban macaw was traded and hunted by Native Americans, and by Europeans after their arrival in the 15th century. Many individuals were brought to Europe as cagebirds, and 19 museum skins exist today. No modern skeletons are known, but a few subfossil remains have been found on Cuba.
ANDBB TIL that by the middle ages, people had forgotten the Roman Colosseum's original purpose
E1AGV TIL that after inventing the lie detector, William Moulton Marston was asked to create and develop a superhero for DC Comics. At his wife's insistence that the superhero be female, Marston created Wonder Woman.
05Dv TIL that Argentina has almost 1m people of Irish decent and Che Guevara came from an Irish family.
rRk5W TIL about Biosphere 2, an attempt to create a closed ecological system that could be used in space. 8 people lived in the dome for two years - only needing additional oxygen and one hospital visit. The experiment was deemed a failure, and the glass dome is now used as a research facility.