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TIL Biplanes were still winning victories in WWII (and not just naval torpedo bombers)

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wRmY TIL The Milgram experiment showed ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extent of killing an innocent human being. Obedience to authority is ingrained in us all from the way we are brought up.
yQYeJ TIL that Akira Kurosawa was unable to get funding after a series of flops, and only returned to filmmaking after attempted suicide when the Soviet Union enlisted him to make a film set in Russia
77mL TIL all federal agencies are required by law to purchase certain supplies (e.g. office supplies) exclusively from companies employing only the blind or severely disabled.
kO7bg TIL that if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction—by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000—then no stars could have ever formed
kOK14 TIL that Kansas is demonstrably flatter than a pancake