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TIL: WWII aircraft designers had selection bias by analyzing returning planes to increase armor on the damaged areas. Abraham Wald pointed the craft didn’t need the armor to survive, and proposed armor on the undamaged sections as hits to these areas must have destroyed the craft not returning.

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d8end TIL that in 2015 A research study on the efficiency of mosquito repellents found that Victoria’s Secret’s Bombshell perfume actually repelled mosquito’s better than nearly all the other non-DEET products
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m9PY TIL that Uzbekistan used to/still does perform non-consensual sterilizations on women after their 2nd childbirth. They would do it by removing the entire uterus. This happened to over 10,000 innocent women.
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