Post * ADLkd — Curious Curator

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TIL when the '79 fullsize Chryslers were being launched, the quality engineering department estimated that there would be 1077 defects per 100 cars built.

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MZQb TIL that dandelions can be used to produce rubber. Car tires made from dandelions are in development.

4n9a TIL That currently there exists a myth in Pakistan that says HIV can be cured by having sex with a virgin, which is contributing to women and girls being raped

VBWP8 TIL about Operation Cottage. A joint US-Canada military operation in 1943 to take back an occupied Alaskan Island. Unfortunately, Canadians and Americans mistook each other for Japanese and open fired, killing 92 soldiers and wounding over 200 others.

yQVaX TIL - During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally led the defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son enlisted in the infanty.

X1Qr TIL Twenty years ago 29,000 rubber ducks fell overboard and they still float around the seas.