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TIL MIT engineers made the first-ever plane with no moving parts by using electricity to ionize air (2018).

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rRv1e TIL that Sam Houston, famous for being president of the Republic of Texas, refused to join the Confederate States of America, predicting that they would lose the civil war. Instead he pushed for the re establishment of an independent Texas.
nebvr TIL some American colonists thought tomatoes were poisonous. To prove their safety to other NJ locals, Robert Gibbon Johnson brought a basketful to the town square and dramatically ate them in front of an audience of ~2000. At least one person fainted as the crowd cheered him on.
j6XBp TIL PTSD did not become an official medical diagnosis until 1980.
Kbpa TIL Milhouse got his name because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”
DQoDD TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination.