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TIL that Orville Wright came to regret his invention. He thought his invention would be used for observation, but he was appalled by the horrors airplanes had contributed to in war.

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WkJv9 TIL the US federal government has an office that receives dead eagles, which are then used by Native Americans for religious purposes.
0wmwR TIL the Sacred Band of Thebes was a troop of select soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male couples which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC, and were responsible for the defeat of the Spartans at the decisive Battle of Leuctra (371 BC).
5XGQ TIL the total compensation of the top nine Apple executives in 2011 is the same as the total compensation of 95,000 Chinese factory workers making Apple products
LJEv TIL Peter Jackson wrote a script for Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. In his version, Freddy had become so weak in the dream world that teenagers would take sleeping pills to go into the Dream World and mess with him.
Z8KMv TIL that the Uncompahgre Ute Native American tribe made special ceremonial rattles filled with quartz that would emit flashes of light when shaken. This was an early example of triboluminescence.