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TIL learned that the treadmill was designed as a torture device for prisoners.

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KOxW6 TIL: The "BookIt!" program still exists and - YES - you can still get free Pizza Hut pizza by reading books.
nWJDY Today I learned that Gene Wilder died listening to one of his favourite songs, Ella Fitzgerald's version of "Over the Rainbow".
a7MA TIL the cars that were given away by Oprah cost the recipients up to $7,000 due to the fact they were marketed as a prize instead of a gift (the latter is not taxed). Many had to forfeit their prize or sell it if they could not afford their “free car”.
b9j7Q TIL Some Wasps Lay Eggs in Different Kinds of Harmful Insects So As Not to Spread and Inflict More Damage
v1Ev8 TIL that German WWI ace German pilot Oswald Boelcke was so respected by his peers that the British Royal Flying Corps dispatched an aircraft to drop a wreath over his home airfield. He was so influential that his dogfighting tactics are still used today in modern aerial warfare.