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TIL The US brand Champion pioneered the production of sweatshirts after developing a process that allowed the use of thicker materials such as French Terry cotton. Then, in 1930, Champion sewed the first hood onto a sweatshirt to keep workers in upstate New York warm, thus also pioneering the hoodie

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LkV9P TIL that during the Cold War, USA considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” into USSR, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.
Lkxe0 TIL Sir Frederick Banting, the Nobel-Prize-winning discoverer of insulin, created the first private biological weapon research centre in 1940. Soon afterwards, the US government was also pressed to perform such research by their British allies who feared a German attack with biological weapons.
mx9PP TIL: it’s so common and customary to have American style tacos on Fridays in Norway, they have a name for it: Fredagstacos
XE8eD TIL that Morse code is officially considered obsolete and was removed as an international standard for communication in 1999. The French Navy's last Morse message read; "Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence."
jNyxM TIL only less than 2% of the uranium in Little Boy, the bomb that was dropped onto Hiroshima, actually fissioned. This was still enough to kill 66,000 people and have a fatal blast radius of 1.3km.