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TIL Producer Deborah Forte of Scholastic Entertainment says they were inspired to create the Magic School Bus TV show after learning that many girls and minorities were opting out of science at young ages.

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ZpyVY TIL Ohio has license plates reading "Birthplace of Aviation" and North Carolina reads "First in Flight" because the two states both claim the Wright Brothers as their own. The Wrights performed the first controlled, powered flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. but built their plane in Ohio
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0dm8M TIL that during Christmas in 1915, a year after the Christmas Truce, when thousands of Allied and Entente soldiers traded gifts and played soccer in no-man’s-land, the Germans tried to make it happen again with Canadian soldiers. The Canadians responded by opening fire