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TIL that Henry "Hap" Arnold, who became the first US General of the Airforce in 1949, was taught to fly by the Wright brothers

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br9Z TIL that anyone in the US, UK or Canada can get their entire genome sequenced for free
yVkZM TIL the ‘70s fascination with truckers as anti-government modern cowboys started when an advertising executive invented C.W. McCall, a folksy trucker character, for a bread ad. He recorded country music using McCall as a stage name, and his #1 hit, “Convoy,” spawned a movie by the same name.
R5wOw TIL the military helped invent Cheetos as they needed shelf-stable food for WWII and ended up with a mountain of dehydrated cheese after the war ended.
j69Xn TIL Jellyfish don’t throw-up or poop, they throop. They throop through their manus.
6orl TIL Martin Luther, once said “I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming.”