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TIL There were less than 60 years between the Wright brothers first flight in an airplane and the first human being launched into space (1903 - 1961)

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WN89 TIL that ‘Black Swan Theory’ is the idea that rare catastrophic events which are beyond the realm of normal expectation or predictability (but later inappropriately rationalized by hindsight) play a vastly larger role in the course of history than any predictable or foreseeable occurrence.
pM4A TIL there is a small, one-story building in Wilmington, Delaware which serves as the official address of nearly 300,000 companies. Up to 200,000 are believed to be shell companies.
gMjG8 TIL that the world's oceans/seas can and often do have distinct NATURAL borders (clines). Not just nebulous boundaries drawn on maps, large bodies of water can differ so greatly in substance & salinity that there can be a distinct, vivid line between even WHOLE OCEANS, e.g Pacific vs. Atlantic!
W7xd4 TIL Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian pastor who believed in the power of teaching through example which he felt would be just as powerful as preaching.
D1jgY TIL that M&M's are made with natural colouring in the EU but not in the US.