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TIL Bill Burr is a licensed helicopter pilot
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TIL an inventor trying to make a sock to prevent trench foot first produced modern water balloons. Having made a latex-coated sock and filling it with water to test for leaks, he found a rip and angrily threw it on his table. Pleased with the splash, he decided to market water balloons for children.
mrMM
TIL that a freelance photographer for the NY post took a photo of a man climbing out of the way of a subway train, rather than helping him. The picture ran the next day front page with the title “DOOMED!” His excuse was that he was trying to warn the driver with his camera’s flash.
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TIL that when the code-breakers at Bletchley Park were short of cribs, they would ask the RAF to mine specific areas of the North Sea, so that they could look for the name of the area and the word “mine” in subsequent German naval reports. This was known as “Gardening”.
OGa96
TIL one of the earliest known account of Islam from a non-Islamic source is a manuscript called "The Teaching of Jacob" (634-640 AD) describing the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslim army and mentioning a "prophet [who] had appeared, coming with the Saracens"
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TIL that Bill Nye isn’t a physicist. He’s a mechanical engineer!