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TIL November 14, 1910 Eugene Ely made the first airplane takeoff from a warship in a Curtiss pusher airplane from the cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, VA. Ely later completes the first landing and takeoff from a ship in 1911. His flights marked the beginning of carrier aviation.

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Z8gYp TIL:1885 the King of Belgium established a fake charity & got international agreement to let it have control of an India-sized chunk of Africa. For years he fooled the world that he was helping Africans, while he was really enslaving people & made roughly $1 billion. At least two million people died
69Ge8 TIL Hungarian engineers strapped two MiG 21 engines to a soviet tank to put out oil well fires. This monster pumps out about 13,200 gallons of water per minute.
Oo5w6 TIL about Francis Wharton, who had no teeth, killed a deer, made a denture out of the animals teeth and then ate the deer
vEB TIL That a film adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Call of Cthulhu” was made in 2005 in the style of a 1930’s silent film.
EgOGd TIL a man named Charles Steinlauf invented a four person bicycle that his family used. It also included a place for his wife to operate her sewing machine while they went for a ride.