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TIL The cross shape spray painted on buildings after a disaster is a FEMA standardized Urban Search and Rescue system

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groDb TIL about Project Genetrix which was a United States Air Force program designed to launch General Mills manufactured surveillance balloons over China, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to take aerial photographs and collect intelligence.
J1Dg1 TIL Snow leopards are not actually a sub species of leopards. In fact, they are instead more related to tigers than any true leopard.
kYBg TIL that Osama bin Laden’s translator wrote a letter to his lawyer while in Guantamo Bay saying LeBron James should apologize to the City of Cleveland
JYkeB TIL that South African inventor Charl Fourie invented a car-mounted flamethrower in 1998 to deter carjackings. The device was legal in South Africa when used in self-defense, but proved to be unprofitable, leading the inventor to design a pocket-sized flamethrower instead
wLEoM TIL Rastafarians believed Haille Selassie, then king of Ethiopia to be the second coming of Jesus. Selassie refuted this and publicly denied his immorality. Rastafarians took this as proof he was in fact Jesus. Selassie's subsequent death in 1975 resulted in a crisis of faith for many Rastafarians.