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TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants...It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals...We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."

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Q116 TIL that in 1945 a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast. His name was Tsutomu Yamaguchi and he is the only person recognized by Japan’s govt. to have survived both attacks.
loGk1 TIL the US patent office actually granted a patent on Indian Basmati rice to the prince of Liechtenstein (an alpine European microstate), in a case of "bio-piracy." The patent was eventually revoked after an international outcry.
ZYVv TIL Nicolas Cage bought a house in New Orleans in which a serial killer tortured and murdered a few dozen people
GY06E TIL about Trasmoz, a town in Spain that was excommunicated for witchcraft in the 13th century, with Pope Julius II also cursing the village in 1511. Neither the excommunication or curse have been lifted. Every June, during the Feria de Brujeria festival, one person is named as 'Witch of the Year'.
lo4WB TIL that for a time lots of navy ships and other military véhicule where painted in pink for better camouflage during dusk and dawn. The idea came from Lord Mountbatten after he saw a ship repainted in pink (the only colour available at the harbour) disappear in the sunset