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TIL that David Gilmour guitarist for Pink Floyd discovered a teenage Kate Bush and is largely responsible for starting her musical career

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kJ0mW TIL: From 1928 to 1948, the 1903 Wright Flyer was displayed at the Science Museum London. As the Smithsonian refused to credit the Wright brothers with the first flight. Instead, crediting Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley. During WW2, it was moved away from London to protect it from bombing.
d8XRd TIL in 1941, the world's largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city causing massive starvation, Vavilov's scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
9jAX TIL that while projections show Islam and Christianity having population booms into 2050, atheism is expected to dwindle as time goes on. The main reason is atheists have extremely low fertility rates in comparison to Christians and Muslims.
KYvK4 TIL Theosophy, founded in the late 19th century by Helena Blavatsky in the US, is a religious movement and part of Western esotericism. It draws from Blavatsky's writings, older European philosophies like Neoplatonism, and Indian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
gMOeW TIL Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, did not live to see the first human to land on the moon.