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TIL: Tesla may have been the first person to patent the radio.

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7XkO TIL that the Bumble Bee II, the world’s smallest piloted airplane, was 8 feet and 10 inches long, with a wingspan of 5 feet and 6 inches, and was built and flown by test pilot Robert Starr, who was almost killed when he crashed it.
4kOGX TIL that strawberry boxes are called punnets, and that their inventor was an ancestor of the creator of the Punnet square
e0BXL TIL William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy shared a scene in a 1964 episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." - and both had forgotten by the time they first met on the set of Star Trek.
rRgOo TIL in exchange for appearing in a mobile phone ad, legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer requested the novelty number 0176 / 666666. He was then flooded with erroneous phone sex calls by confused callers, since "six" and "sex" are pronounced almost the same in German.
5pN8 TIL The Nobel Peace Prize can not be awarded to a dead person. The prize was not awarded in 1948 because there was “no suitable living candidate” as Gandhi was recently assassinated.