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TIL Orville Wright's final flight was in a plane whose wingspan exceeded the length of his original flight.

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DKJp TIL The Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is designed for the sun to shine directly on the headstone only once a year, on Remembrance Day (Nov 11, 11am)
Eoyp TIL that inside a 2,700-year-old grave of a shaman, a large leather basket and wooden bowl was found filled with 789g of cannabis, superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions.
a5M9 TIL that a school in Poland is named after an Indian Maharaja, in honour of him providing shelter and free education to hundreds of Polish women and children after they had to escape Poland due to the World War 2.
4kyeJ TIL In 1986, Ginger Rogers sued the US distributors of the Federico Fellini film Ginger and Fred for trademark infringement. The court ruled in favor of the defendants. Now, the "Rogers test" is used in cases where trademark holders' rights conflict with artistic expression.
R7bo8 TIL the last claim under the 1866 Homestead Act, which entitled a person to free frontier land if they lived on it for five years and built a farm, was made on 80 acres near the Stony River in Alaska in 1979.