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TIL Disney's Space Mountain uses fans to blow air on you to create the illusion that you are going faster than you really are.

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71AO TIL that women in America began smoking cigarettes in public thanks to Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, who used his uncle’s theories and press release technique to give women this freedom. He was actually employed by a tobacco corporation which needed to sell more.
4XPYN TIL it’s spelled “champ at the bit,” not “chomp at the bit.”
m1GmP TIL There's an active US Coast Guard vessel that originally belonged to Nazi Germany.
7rkgb TIL of a man that protects the world's rarest colors, some being poisonous, and some very beautiful. One of the colors is a yellow pigment originating from dried cow urine where they were only fed mango leaves.
ra5e TIL that a German U-boat sunk in 1945 was raised in 1957 and returned to service.