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TIL That car manufacturers adapted the WWI "Dazzle" camouflage technique that was used on ships, for their cars. They regularly use it to hide the finer details of prototype vehicles.

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OGaoa TIL that as far back as 400 BCE, the Chinese used rapid fire Crossbows that could shoot 7–10 bolts in 15–20 seconds, with an effective range of 70 meters and a maximum range of 180 meters. They were primarily used for defense of gates and doorways.
DoRJ TIL that the Soviets used to send astronauts up with a sawed-off shotgun to fight off bears when they returned to Earth in the Siberian Wilderness.
D11KJ TIL the worst maritime disaster in US history was Steamboat Sultana, where 1192 souls perished after its boilers exploded just outside Memphis. Not very many people heard about it since news coverage focused on the killing of John Wilkes Booth the previous day.
vmW8 TIL that The right to practice religion freely does not include the right to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill-health or death…Prince v. Massachusetts 1944
5ggn TIL Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps is a veteran of the Civil Rights movement, stating “the Scripture doesn’t support racism.”