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TIL in 1916 Albert Einstein wrote an article proposing a more efficient shape for wings. The plane built with his wings barely left the ground.

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4BKa TIL a man’s enormous 12-pound facial tumour could have been treated when he was a teenager, but his mother wouldn’t let him get surgery because she was a Jehovah’s Witness.
m6ZM TIL In 1920, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote letters to his children as Father Christmas, along with illustrations of his home near the North Pole, and planted it in the youngster’s bedroom. He wrote them until 1943, and with each passing year, his stories became more elaborate and character-filled.
E1a0X TIL bees take naps in flowers when they get tired
4RB5 TIL that in 2004 the company Alcoa had to officially declare the proposed site for its new aluminum smelting plant in Iceland “elf-free” before it could begin construction.
oRWaA TIL about Patrick Combs, who deposited a $95,000 junk mail promotional check in 1995, only to see the bank clear it!