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TIL in WW2 the British emplyed Operation Window which used a highly effective tactic to jam German radar - dropping plane loads of small pieces of aluminum and zinc foil

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8aJR4 TIL that the Torajan people of Indonesia live with their dead for extended periods of time
6NXJ TIL that a species of nematode was discovered living at depths of up to 2.2 miles deep, suggesting that an undiscovered biosphere may exist underground.
XRAR TIL that Pluto couldn’t even complete a solar orbit between being discovered and being declassified as a planet.
KO9M6 TIL the reason Phoenix can exist in the middle of the desert is because in 1868 Jack Swilling discovered the ruins of a 27,000 sqmi canal system built by the Hohokam. He restarted the canals and today that infrastructure, with modern expansions, waters the city of over a million in the hot desert.
Bryor TIL that despite discovering the cure for scurvy as early as 1497 by Vasco de Gama's crew, it was repeatedly forgotten, discredited, 'rediscovered' and messed around for hundreds of years despite scientific research. It continued killing people till Vitamin C was finally isolated in 1932