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TIL the Super Soaker inventor is a Tuskegee-trained NASA engineer who used the money earned from a toy to do research on solar power and batteries

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ANGpo TIL tourists often get lost on their way to visit Auschwitz in Poland, because the name is absent from both the nearby bus stop and train station.
bbDQ TIL Czechoslovak runner Emil Zátopek decided to compete in the marathon in the 1952 Olympics, despite never having run that distance in his life. Zátopek asked fellow runner Jim Peters, who he was racing alongside, if the pace was fast enough. When Peters said “no”, Zátopek sped up and won the race
x6aeb TIL that college students at Brigham Young University can get expelled for consuming coffee or tea
MePv7 TIL in the past, compressed blocks of dried tea were used as currency
16k0r TIL In 1797, Fath Ali Shah, the second Shah (king) of Qajar Iran, was given a complete set of the Encyclopædia Britannica's 3rd edition, which he read completely; after this feat, he extended his royal title to include "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica.