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TIL the Wright Brothers were perpetual bachelors, and that Orville Wright disowned their sister Katherine after she married and had a family of her own, feeling he had been "betrayed".

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6BjZ TIL of a sea slug that eats algae until it incorporates the algae into its tissues, eventually ceasing to eat and getting all of its energy from the sun directly.
JYBjV TIL British minister Alan Clark once dismissed his colleague Michael Heseltine as the kind of person "who bought his own furniture" (as opposed to someone with 'breeding' who inherits furniture).
QJWPe TIL of the Jolly Roger Telephone Company. You pay them to obnoxiously respond to robocalls. "Subscribers can choose robot personalities, such as Whiskey Jack, who is frequently distracted by a game he is watching on television, or Salty Sally, a frazzled mother."
X84r TIL Charlie Chaplin not only wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in his films but for many also composed the musical scores.
epWQE TIL that, during WW2, the USA wanted to turn France into a puppet state and abolish its'national sovereignty