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TIL that we sent people to the moon before we put wheels on suitcases

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M7D40 TIL that not everyone sees lines when they look at lights and that i have a condition called astigmatism.
xV1lw TIL that Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle attended a dinner party held by an editor looking for content. They each promised to contribute to his magazine. The results of that evening? The Picture of Dorian Gray and the second, franchise-cementing Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four.
P17Og TIL that a dowry was originally paid to the bride's family as compensation for the loss of her labor and reproductive potential.
BJjk TIL that players in the online game “EVE Online” spent an entire year of real time infiltrating an in-game corporation; an ended up looting the equivalent of $16,500 USD of in game items.
neOyB TIL: In 1935 George S. Patton led an operation to bomb erupting Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa to divert lava flow from the city of Hilo.