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TIL that Orville Wright, of The Wright Brothers fame, met Chuck Yeager in 1945 and was still alive when Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947

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4m66 TIL: The pencil has been around since the 1500’s, and have always been made with graphite. Pencils have never contained lead.
A47x TIL that gaslighting was used as early as WWII by Nazi Germany as one of the Zersetzung psychological manipulation warfare techniques to destroy and drive political opponents to psychosis and suicide.
m9Yv TIL that Victor Hugo slept with so many prostitutes that on the day he died, all the brothels in Paris closed to mourn.
6Jb7 TIL that Hurling, a wildly popular sport in Ireland, is considered completely amateur, and the players get no pay, despite playing in stadiums that hold 80,000+ fans who pay admission.
odMo TIL that on September 10, 2001, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon had wasted or misplaced up to $2.3 trillion, or $8,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country, and promised to go after the unchecked Pentagon bureaucracy