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TIL Nikolas Tesla rejected Einstein’s Theory of Relativity on claims of discoveries that he worked out a dynamic theory of gravity which he never published.

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YprgZ TIL That the US Army tradition of naming helicopters after Native American Tribes (something that was once an official regulation) dates to 1947 and General Hamilton Howze who felt that helicopters were meant to attack the flank and fade away...in the tradition of the Plains Indian tribes.
W77Yo TIL there was a cult devoted to Gadget from Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers
pYdee TIL that the immobilizing foam from Hulk (2003) is a real thing, often used to booby trap vehicles transporting nuclear weapons
b9YMN TIL that the official bird of Madison, Wisconsin is the plastic flamingo.
aw15L TIL that Pakistan, a profiled Islamic nation, democratically elected a female Prime Minister in 1988 and 1993, Benazir Bhutto, thus becoming the first muslim majority nation lead by a woman.