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TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that it would take humans 1 to 10 million years to perfect a flying machine. The Wright Brothers did it 69 days later.

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APN4 TiL in China a large industry developed using sewage as cooking oil.
N1WM TIL a Chinese man spent $40,000 to buy out four entire IMAX cinemas to prove his girlfriend wrong. His girlfriend dumped him seven years ago because he wasn’t able to afford two tickets for a date
Z815v TIL an American woman needed her husband's permission to open a bank account as recently as the 1960s
ne11W TIL that Buzz Aldrin was the first man to urinate on the moon.
VBRWQ TIL the distance between Earth and the Moon is so great, you could fit all other planets in the solar system between them