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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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kJJGE TIL Napoleon's penis is in a box in New Jersey.
VPxm TIL Jay Leno has never touched a dime of his ‘Tonight Show’ money
O6ZR TIL that the holocaust survivor Ellie Weisel lost his life savings in the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme, and that his charity lost $15 million
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