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TIL, without permission, test pilot Tex Johnson did a barrel roll in a prototype 707 during a first look at a an air show with a lot of potential customers in attendance. When his boss called him into his office and said “What the hell were you doing?”, he replied “Selling Airplanes.”.

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1b5X TIL in 1856 Sir Andrew Waugh calculated the height of Mt. Everest to be exactly 29,000ft. However, he published the calculation of 29,002ft. due to the fear that the former would seem like nothing more than a rounded estimate. This makes him the first person to put two feet on top of Mt. Everest.
PYGXg TIL that the Ancient Egyptians had a solar calendar with 365 days, and was a basis on which the Julian calendar was established in Rome.
ANpMd Til: The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years
v1b5j TIL, after 9/11, the Clear Channel Memoradum banned 164 songs from radio airplay, such as Metallica’s “Seek & Destroy”, the Beatles “ Lucy in the Sky with a Diamonds”, AC/DC’s “TNT”, Paul McCartney and Wings “Live and Let Die”, and Rage Against The Machine’s entire catalog.
4kK6N TIL 5 oil pipe workers were sucked into an oil pipe. One made it out and requested help for the others but no one did a thing.