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Six questions about a coin toss at Kitty Hawk, a pilot who couldn’t see out the front of his own plane, and the flying nurses who invented an entire profession — all true.

Your first question:

On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made the first powered airplane flight in history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. But three days earlier, it had been his older brother Wilbur lying at the controls for the very first attempt. How did the brothers decide who would fly first?

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