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TIL about Bob Jones University, a Christian university where students are only allowed to watch G-rated movies and rock music is banned

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MelgB TIL The Chief Engineer for the SR-71 started as a tool engineer but was promoted for detecting a flaw in an airliner that made it unstable. He went on to create the famous Lockheed Skunkworks.
ANLva TIL that in 1947 a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison mutated Penicillium Roqueforti (blue cheese mold), accidentally creating a colorless "blue" cheese. The cheese made from this mutated mold was dubbed Nuworld cheese, and is still being produced for sale in small quantities.
jN7wE TIL that human hair can be used to accurately measure relative humidity in the air. Human hair hygrometers have been in use since the 18th century.
KOmW4 TIL before the WWII Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese military forced Okinawan boys as young as 14 to fight against the US invasion. They weren't expected to win so the boys were given suicide missions. The only weapon most were given were 2 grenades - one for the US solders the other for themselves.
KYlGE TIL that the reason we are seeing bigger cars in the US, is because the government made a formula that incentivizes manufacturers to build bigger cars