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TIL In 1898 Nikola Tesla once tricked an entire crowd into believing they could control a toy boat by shouting commands - he had in fact invented Radio Control and was piloting the boat himself.

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b6YX0 TIL that during a 2002 rally race, driver Markko Märtin was holding a slight lead when the hood of his car flipped open, covering his windshield. Despite having only having 30m of visibility, he continued driving the next 20km with the bonnet blocking his view, and eventually won the race.
4Nao TIL Curb Your Enthusiasm saved a guy from murder charges. Outtake footage of an episode taking place at Dodgers stadium showed the accused in the crowd, some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder.
XNBP TIL of Robert Clary who survived two Nazi concentration camps ( Ottmuth and Buchenwald ) and tattooed with the identification “A5714” on his left forearm. We know him as Corporal Louis LeBeau, the sparky French resistence fighter inside a Nazi prison camp on “Hogans Heros”. He is now 91 years old.
9nDM TIL in 1987 Jamie Lee Curtis invented a diaper with a moisture proof pocket for wipes, but would not let her invention be marketed until companies sold biodegradable diapers.
wL01W TIL the doctor responsible for anesthetizing the boys during the thai cave rescue believed that there was no chance of the plan actually working