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TIL Canada made an actual flying saucer during the cold war

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jN6ZX TIL that the record for passengers on a ship was set in WW2 by the Queen Mary: 16,082. The ocean liner was so fast it often sailed without escort and could outrun both submarines and torpedoes
91dD TIL The term “Fragging” used in video games originated during the Vietnam War, and was the act of throwing a live grenade in your commanding officers tent while he slept… with over 900 cases towards the end of the war.
e0EJD TIL that bread products (Such as bagels and, well, bread) use a chemical called L-cysteine, is a chemical that comes from hairs in such animals as Humans, Duck feathers, and Hog hairs.
0k65 TIL two 300-ton weights sit at opposite ends of the 58th floor of the Hancock Tower in Boston because occupants on higher floors were getting motion sickness during high winds.
MxxW TIL That a man called David Reimer was raised as a girl after a botched circumcision destroyed his penis. This caused him serious psychological damage, destroying widespread theories on the malleability of gender