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TIL that a flying car, the Aerocar, was invented in 1954 by an aeronautical engineer named Molt Taylor. It is the only car in the US to be certified for flight by the FAA.

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e0ejb TIL that American singer Kesha got a near-perfect score on her SATs and was accepted to Barnard College at Columbia University, but instead chose to drop out before graduation to pursue her music career.
OowjL TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an A but his paper was taken away by the FBI.
QJmba TIL that Killing Hope, the book about the history of US backed coups around the world, is publicly available on CIA.gov
W9L8 TIL that the last words of Norman Douglas, a British author most known for the 1917 novel ‘South Wind’, were “Get those fucking nuns away from me.”
wLjX1 TIL the "blobfish" has been voted the world's ugliest animal. It will now serve as the mascot for the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.