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TIL the USMC once used a modified version of DOOM to do simulation trainings

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b9vNE TIL in 1856 an American clipper was approaching Cape Horn when its captain collapsed, leaving his 19-year-old wife to navigate through one of the world's deadliest sea passages. She commanded for 56 days, faced down a mutiny, and navigated the clipper ship into San Francisco
KLQ4 TIL Sir Francis Bacon, known for his phrase that “knowledge is power”, wrote the first book on the growing of terrestrial plants in a soilless environment. That practice would later become known as Hydroponics.
BgZMk TIL about Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish physician who rescued 8,000 Jewish individuals during World War 2 by ingeniously fabricating a false typhus outbreak in Stalowa Wola, a Polish city under Nazi occupation.
Rng6 TIL The Vatican has an astronomical department staffed with Jesuits and runs one of the worlds largest telescopes called LUCIFER located in Arizona
W9XA TIL that Volvo, the inventor of the three point seat belt, shared the patent to protect the safety of drivers