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TIL A big reason men don’t wear hats like they did in the early 20th century is due to the advent of cars!

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awZOZ TIL that composer Johann Schobert (NOT Schubert) died from eating poisonous mushrooms, after two people told him not to eat them. A doctor friend insisted that they were edible. Schobert, the doctor, his wife, and all but one of his children ate the resulting mushroom soup and died.
vPjGr TIL the Beechcraft KingAir outsold all of its competitors… combined.
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