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TIL The Segway inventor is still alive. The company’s owner (Jim Heselden) is the one who felt off the cliff and died in a Segway accident, not the inventor (Dean Kamen).

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4X9bw TIL that in 1977 a small town in West Virginia named Vulcan asked the USSR to help them rebuild a bridge after being denied funding by the local government. The WVA government gave them the money less then an hour after the story broke and a soviet journalist was sent to investigate.
mejR TIL: Nintendo’s Mario is named after the landlord of the warehouse Nintendo was using as their American headquarters, the company had gotten behind in rent payment, prompting an angry visit from Mario, the developers subsequently immortalized him by renaming “Jumpman” to “Mario”.
WBKA TIL The Mona Lisa has no clear visible eyelashes or eyebrows. In 2007, a French engineer used high resolution scans to show that the painting was originally painted with clearly visible eyelashes or eyebrows and they gradually disappeared over time, possible due to overcleaning
R7bQ TIL: In 1895, Empress Myeongseong of Korea was murdered and had her corpse burned by 20 Japanese agents. A Russian architect made an eyewitness account.
4lmg TIL a woman fell after summiting Everest. Her husband died trying to rescue her. Two climbers comforted her before leaving her to die because they couldn’t carry her. After much guilt, they went back 8 years later to enshrine her body. Her husband was found a year later.