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TIL that there is credible evidence and sworn eyewitness reports, that Gustav Weißkopf was the first person to ever fly a powered aeroplane, while the Wright brothers tried everything to discredit Weißkopf with dubious articles and contracts.

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akML TIL Denmark has ‘Fix Rooms’ that Give Drug Users A Safe Haven to use
8xvX TIL of the Cat Organ, a 16th century piano-type contraption played by a trained bear which yanked the tails of cats in order to create music.
0wv5v TIL: after leaving for a trip and returning to find his pregnant wife had died and been burried, Samuel Morse spent the next 45 years of his life inventing the telegraph; trying to make sure no one felt the way he did that night.
Lk69V TIL that James Bond was named after an ornithologist whose field guides Ian Fleming, a prolific birdwatcher, read while on vacation.
QYQX TIL: A woman with Type 1 diabetes underwent an islet cell transplant. Since the transplant, her glucose levels have remained at a healthy level, and she was taken off insulin and has no dietary restrictions. “She is like a nondiabetic person but requires antirejection drugs,”