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TIL that Apollo 11 carried pieces of the Wright Brothers’ plane to the moon in 1969 - just 66 years after the world’s first powered flight.

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JjRk TIL Chef Boiardi (Chef Boyardee) catered President Woodrow Wilson’s wedding reception, and then during WWII was awarded the Order of Lenin for helping to feed Russian soldiers.
rQ8o TIL a failed experiment of an 18 year old English chemist in search of a treatment for malaria in 1856 produced one of the world’s first synthetic dyes for the color purple, which severely impacted economic trade as some natural dyes were major commodities more valuable than silver or gold
X4BR TIL that in addition to the word “lord” evolving from a word literally meaning “keeper of bread”, “lady” evolved from a word literally meaning “kneader of bread”
D1QNV TIL that Diddy Kong's name comes from a British English slang term for small.
jNvNa TIL Charles Barkley was the first black baby born at a segregated, all-white town hospital in Leeds, Alabama and was in the first group of black students at his elementary school.