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TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability, & cost of production.

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mNbY TIL In 1972, Geraldo Rivera exposed one of the worst cases of systematic abuse of the mentally ill in America (Willowbrook)
VvjZ TIL American soldiers during WWII started a riot in New Zealand because they didn’t segregate their bars and they didn’t want to drink with non-white people.
GYMB5 TIL about melanism, the opposite of albinism
4vlR TIL: a 15 year old teenager was beaten to death after spending only 14 hours in Internet Addiction clinic
rnZW TIL During the Battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers suffered more casualties attempting to take 1 apartment building (Pavlov’s House) then they did taking the city of Paris.