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TIL The Segway was #1 on Time’s worst inventions of all time

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LkLAd TIL that the youngest confirmed world leaders are John I of France and Alfonso XIII of Spain who were both crowned on the day of their birth.
ZpPQa TIL Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane who unknowingly partially disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed all 63 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
lKo1 TIL researchers trained flatworms, then decapitated them. After their heads grew back, researchers found they had retained their training.
Y7Ro7 TIL according to medieval legend the Codex Gigas was created by a monk sentenced to be walled up alive; but to escape death promised to create, in one night, a book with all human knowledge. Near midnight, the desperate monk gave Lucifer his soul to finish the book. Thus, a nickname "Devil's Bible".
nWoWb TIL that SEGA was founded as an American company in 1953 as Service Games, and it wasn't until 1984 that it became a Japanese company through a corporate buyout