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grMY9 TIL Brazilians don't believe that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Instead, they believe that Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumond, was the true inventor.
yV5be TIL that the first airship to successfully cross the Atlantic was named the R34. It went from the U.K. to Long Island and then returned again within 10 days.
e0VlL TIL that in 1895 a white man in Louisiana was lynched by a white crowd for an attempt to lynch a black woman
1aGlW TIL that the iconic THX sound that plays before trailers isn't actually very loud, it just feels loud because it contains a spectrum of frequencies that go from low to high.
b97yN TIL a 64-year-old Sydney man filed 19,600 noise complaints about airport noise over a 12 month period. He averaged approximately one complaint for every 20 minutes the airport was open.