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TIL the Wright brothers may not have done what they did if not for a hockey accident that sent Wilbur Wright into a depression, causing him to cancel his plans of going to Yale, and eventually open the bicycle shop with his brother.

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grwEX TIL that Tim Burton did not actually direct The Nightmare Before Christmas, because he was directing Batman Returns.
W761o TIL In 1924, Chin Foin, the wealthiest restaurateur in Chicago’s Chinatown, was found dead at the bottom of the elevator shaft in his business, the Mandarin Inn. His restaurants set a new standard for Chinese restaurants and inspired the first Chinese-American Cookbook.
PO8w TIL in 1998 an artist debuted a piece at an opening in New York consisting of a 50 foot line of cocaine on 50 feet of mirror for the viewers to snort, which they did.
PYoAE TIL: In a room at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond all sound from the outside world is locked out. It's called an "anechoic" chamber, because it creates no echo at all. The background noise is so low that it approaches the lowest threshold theorized by mathematicians - next step is vacuum.
vRb7 TIL that when cooking in a cast iron skillet, the ammount of iron in the food may increase by 850 percent.