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TIL that queen Elizabeth was a mechanic in ww2.

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kDYW TIL the band “Twenty One Pilots” got their name from the book “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller. In the book, a man sends out faulty airplane parts and causes the death of 21 pilots in World War II
VMlo8 TIL, Aboriginal Australian tribes have no words for left, right, forward, or backward in their language. They only use cardinal directions to describe locations of everything around them, knowing where north and south are at all times, essentially being human compasses
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nerdG TIL that the pressurized bodies of early airships were called “envelopes,” a term that persisted in aviation to later describe the ideal flight performance of an airplane. When early NASA test pilots reached higher altitude, they called it “pushing the envelope” which is where we get the phrase.