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TIL Hawaii affectionately calls Las Vegas “The 9th Island” with more than 300,000 Hawaiians visiting there annually.

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OGkBL TIL: Ancient Chinese Toys (400 BC) Inspired Modern Helicopters. A stick with feathers at the end was rapidly spun between the hands to generate lift and then released into free flight. In 1754, Lomonosov developed a rotor modeled after the Chinese top, but powered by a wound-up spring device.
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