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Eg8Ox TIL about the Merci Train - a collection of 49 boxcars sent by France to the United States in response to humanitarian aid provided after World War II. Each state barring Alaska got their own, and 43 still survive today.
GAGE1 TIL that the famous "We Can Do It!" poster was barely known during WWII. It was displayed for two weeks as part of a series of posters to boost worker morale in one company's factories. It remained virtually unknown until the 1980s when it was rediscovered in an article about the National Archives.
Pk4n TIL that despite dying in 1976, billionaire Howard Hughes (THE AVIATOR) had no living will and his estate was not fully dispersed until 2010, 34 years later
dLB TIL that the US Army during WWII developed a grenade the same size and shape as a baseball, to make it more effective for the soldiers who had grown up playing baseball
e05e4 TIL that up until the end of 2013 russian soldiers used "foot wraps" instead of socks for 300 years. The rationale for using foot wraps was, that soldiers needed to be able to be fully dressed within 45 seconds.