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TIL that the urban legend of carrots giving night vision was invented as a cover-up by the British RAF in WWII. They were able to shoot down German planes at night using radar; rather than letting the enemy know about their technology, they claimed it was carrots that gave the gunners night vision

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x69vk TIL in a survey released by the Database Center For North Korean Human Rights and NK Social Research in Seoul, around 18% of 407 North Koreans said they were willing to return to the North, most of them citing nostalgia
nGZG TIL that word formations like LGBTQ and USA are technically not acronyms, they are “initialisms” or “alphabetisms”. NATO and laser are acronyms, because they are pronounced as words and not just as a string of letters.
Lp0Z TIL: The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous concept used in the Apollo Missions was devised by a Ukranian engineer in 1916, half a century before the first time it was successfully used.
7kMX TIL The average 70-year-old Inuit with a traditional diet of whale and seal has arteries as elastic as those of a 20-year-old Danish resident.
e7VE TIL that the state treasury of zimbabwe is only 217$.