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TIL: WWII - In 1944, the American military attaché in Bern warned the Swiss foreign minister, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, that the mistreatment inflicted on US aviators could lead to “navigation errors” during bombing raids over Germany.

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xVYvb TIL, there is an Irish Sportswear Company, O'Neills, that is allowed to use the same 3 stripe design as Adidas for products on sale on the island of Ireland. In 1983, Adidas took O’Neills to court for copyright infringement but lost. O'Neills was founded in 1918 with Adidas not founded until 1949.
NXBG8 TIL about the Melanesian “cargo cults” - an indigenous group who superstitiously recreated Allied / Japanese military equipment, clothes, and routines in the hopes that it would bring back more of the resources they saw delivered to bases on nearby islands during WWII.
dwO8 TIL Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine could not be patented - on TV Salk claimed that he made the decision on moral grounds, but did not mention that his lawyers looked into patenting his polio vaccine, but determined it “could not be patented because of prior art”
M7Gjb TIL that in 1918, Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons. Markievicz was an Irish republican and refused to take her seat in line with Sinn Fein policy to protest the British empires involvement in Ireland
xVQO0 TIL about a restaurant which gives complementary reptiles with food.