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TIL a man built a cutting-edge stealth boat for the US Navy. Then the government tried to put him out of business.

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P1Mn TIL Enigma (German WWII encryption) was broken in part because operators used guessable passcodes, including letter repeats, adjacent key letters, four letter German names, and obscenities.
OoaX7 TIL that Native Americans started the practice of reloading bullet cartridges during the Indian Wars. US military authorities found out and ordered all US soldiers to stomp on their fires cartridges after being fired. Frontiersmen took advantage of this and sold overpriced shells to the natives.
X0QDQ TIL that news of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's successful ascent of Everest in 1953 was one of the last major news events delivered to the world by runner.
ev6k TIL that if the human eye was a camera it would cost roughly $35.000.000
lvRV TIL that a high school student absent due to a doctor’s appointment ended up locking his school down and getting held by the police after the receptionist calling him to confirm his absence thought the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song was a bomb threat