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TIL Although popular culture has them associated with medieval castles since the 19th century, underground prisons, dungeons and oubliettes were not as common in English Castles. Evidence suggests that rooms previously identified as dungeons, were in fact storage rooms for ice, or drainage pipes

EONX TIL Philo T. Farnsworth, the creator of the television, hated his invention until he saw the moon landing broadcasted on it in 1969.
78PEO TIL to date the most expensive NFL trading card ever sold is a 2017 Panini National Treasures Platinum #161 Patrick Mahomes II (Kansas City Chiefs) NFL Shield Rookie Autograph 1/1 which fetched $4.3 million in a private sale in July 2021.
m1PWy TIL Menu Change Cost is the cost incurred by a restaurant for changing its menu or increasing prices. Restaurants must weigh this cost against the prospect of added revenue from changing the menu
4Mjo TIL that Goodyear developed a small inflatable airplane called the “Inflatoplane” with funding from the United States Army in 1956. The project was scrapped because it could not find a “valid military use for an aircraft that could be brought down by a well-aimed bow and arrow.”
JY95v TIL that there's a name dispute over whether it's appropriate to refer to Ireland and Britain as the "British Isles". Alternatives include IONA or Islands Of the North Atlantic, the Pretanic Isles after their ancient Greek name, and the St. Agnes Isles after the smallest island in the archipelago.