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TIL that more than 2,500 Fairey Barracudas were delivered to the Royal Navy during the 1940s, but none were preserved. The Fleet Air Arm Museum has collected components since the 1970s- including wreckage- in order to rebuild one from original parts.

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Z8GkQ TIL For more than 50 years last century, Chicago Public High Schools required boys to swim naked.
PYjLV TIL: About the Nazi's Lebensborn program which served to raised racially pure Aryan babies. They also kidnapped "perfect" babies from foreign nations and even dyed the hair of some of them. A famous Lebensborn baby eventually became a member of ABBA.
1axxD TIL that in 1999, Shenmue became the most expensive video game ever developed at the time, with an estimated production and marketing cost of between US$47 and $70 million
9YBEm TIL when an American tried to mention Stephen Hawking as an example of how any country that wasn't America would have let Hawking die, Hawking snapped back and stated the only reason he was alive was due to the NHS and the United Kingdom.
orBY TIL there is a form of therapy for adopted children which involves physically restraining the child and forcing the child to break down emotionally so that the parents can nurture the child, thus gaining its trust. It is considered by many to be pseudoscientific and child abuse.