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TIL: The first non stop Atlantic flight was by two British airman in 1919, it is almost forgotten about.

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Bra4r TIL The first suicide bomber in history was an Indian Queen who set herself on fire and ran into an ammunition's storehouse to kill the British in 1780.
QJnRa TIL of the Scrub Bulls of Australia, wild descendants of 20 cattle released from an abandoned military post in 1849. In the 1960's researchers realized there was a population of some 1,500 feral cattle. Today they are often hunted for sport.
rwLx TIL that the Ostrich-Egg Globe may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.
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JYEO1 TIL Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Ontario, Canada in 1962