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

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VGxG TIL That the Caesar Salad is named after Caesar Cardini, an Italian American hotel owner.
wL0OY TIL Australian medical pioneers, doctor Mark Lidwill and physicist Edgar Booth, developed the first artificial pacemaker in the 1920s. Lidwill even used the invention in 1928 to revive a stillborn baby, who went on to make a full recovery.
aoBb TIL a pollination technique invented by a 12 year old slave is the reason Vanilla is commonly available today
VMmyD TIL that since the turn of the century, cockroach populations have plummeted in some former Soviet countries for unknown reasons, with at least one species being proposed for inclusion in lists of threatened fauna
nmEW TIL: One in 25 people are sociopaths. Many are successful, attractive and charming. They are completely remorseless and expert at getting what they want.