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TIL the Beechcraft KingAir outsold all of its competitors… combined.

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4kdXw TIL the Pap smear test, named after its inventor Georgios Papanikolaou, was pioneered through daily samples of his wife Andromachi.
XE6xj TIL The space shuttle Enterprise was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976, but Star Trek fans convinced President Gerald Ford to name it the Enterprise.
b9RM7 TIL of the Siege of Weinsberg. A surrender allowed the women to leave with whatever they could carry, so the women lifted their husbands onto their shoulders and walked out.
GYjp7 TIL: Ian Fleming based James Bond on at least 17 different people, but apparently not a real spy named James Bond.
WkmBB TIL that in the 1960s the CIA paid climbers to put nuclear powered spy devices in the Himalayas to monitor Chinese nuclear weapons tests. Some of the devices were left unattended and were subsequently lost.