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TIL before WWII Henry Ford sent thousands of US workers to Soviet Union in order to establish a Ford licenced factory. The project was a huge disaster and the workers were abandoned by Ford and the US government. Most of them died in Soviet gulags, less than a hundred ever came back.

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JYN6Q Today I learned the St. Francis dam disaster was one of the most catastrophic civil engineering failures in American history.
Lkm8Q TIL according to a 2001 study, sponsored by the BBC, France 3 and Discovery Channel, Jesus's skin would have been more olive-colored than white or black, and that he would have most likely looked like a typical Galilean Semite of his day.
oB5Rr TIL that the Wright Brothers tested over 50 different types of airfoils on their plane.
nWB5d TIL 25000 disabled people were sterilized in Japan between the 1950s and 1990s, at least 16,500 forcibly
p8N6N TIL about Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy, an English nobleman executed by King Henry VIII, whose wonderfully repetitive title is eclipsed only by the name of his first wife, Dousabella Tempest. (Incidentally, Henry VIII also had courtiers called Richard Rich and William Fitzwilliam.)