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TIL KitchenAid has moved manufacturing of hand mixers from China back to the USA

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DZWe TIL there’s a ship that’s designed to turn its bow up into the air, while the rest of the ship submerges, turning it into a buoy.
gMGx7 TIL there is a little known island in New York City called Hart Island that has been used as a burial ground for poor or unidentified people for decades, and in 2012 Hurricane Sandy's heavy storm surge tore at its shore revealing hundreds of human bones.
NXro6 TIL that Big Bird was originally suggested as one of the candidates to go aboard the Challenger shuttle.
N7omb TIL that the first person of color to ever be vice president of the United States was Charles Curtis, VP to Herbert Hoover who was of American Indian tribal citizenship
awZQy TIL that it was on September 7, 1905 that the first ever bird strike by an airplane was reported, and by none other than Wilbur Wright, an aviation pioneer, as recorded in his diary. This incident occurred when his aircraft hit a bird over Bread's cornfield near Dayton, Ohio.