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TIL the first motorcycle to be designed, manufactured, and sold in Japan was the NS motorcycle created by Narazo Shimazu in 1908. He developed a two-cycle motorcycle engine and reused bicycles for the frame. He only made twenty of these.

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mLlY TIL If you are 27, half of India is younger than you. If you are 30, already half of the world is younger than you.
9YnNB TIL the 'Kerala School' identified the 'infinite series'- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350. The discovery is currently - and wrongly - attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.
ywEe TIL that between 1912 and 1948, art competitions were a part of the Olympics. Medals were awarded for architecture, music, painting, and sculpture.
PYjvG TIL the Nazi Germany nuclear weapons program was split in several agencies, including the Reich Postal Ministry
vPObr TIL: the german general population under Hitler never actually got the Volkswagen beetle. There was a stamp lottery to get one that never finished before total war broke out. The first deliveries happened after the fall of the nazis.