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TIL that the Wright Brothers' 1903 Flyer was so unstable, it was virtually uncontrollable by anybody besides the brothers, who had trained on their 1902 glider.

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wVk7 TIL Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific in 1947 in a self-built raft to prove ancient people could have made contact between the continents
PdrZ TIL: in 1962, Mike Wallace’s oldest son Peter went missing while exploring in Greece. Wallace flew to Greece alone, asked question, followed his son’s last know locations and found his body at the bottom of a hill where he fell while hiking.
YpyAr TIL Crusader Rabbit was the first animated cartoon series specifically made for television. Airing in 1950, the main character Crusader Raddit and his sidekick Rags engaged in 4-minute cliffhanger dilemmas
R5p89 TIL Legendary chef Jacques Pépin was a rising chef in the NYC high end restaurant scene when in 1974 he suffered a near fatal car accident with injuries so severe he had to quit daily chef work. Instead of quitting the business he instead reinvented himself as an educator, a teacher and an author.
n107 TIL that amid widespread chocolate shortage during WW2, Pietro Ferrero sought to create a chocolate treat that would be affordable for struggling families. The result was “supercrema,” a spread made with just a little bit of chocolate and a lot of the hazelnuts. Now we call it Nutella.