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TIL the study that began the “vaccines cause autism” hysteria was proven to be a COMPLETE fraud

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e0g4L TIL About Rags. A stay mutt found by a U.S. soldier in WW1, Rags became the mascot of the 1st Infantry Division after he saved hundreds of lives by running messages under fire. When Rags was injured he was sent to a field hospital with an order from HQ "The dog gets attention same as soldiers"
e0ER4 TIL the idea for a military Command Information Center ("CIC"), was taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E. E."Doc" Smith in a surge of refitting and retraining during 1943 after the battle of the Coral Sea through the Solomon Islands
4Yr5 TIL that the French ensign (French flag flown at sea) is not equally proportioned in its sections (30:33:37) because it was intended to look equal only when moving
8ep1K TIL the prison Martha Stewart served time in is nicknamed Camp Cupcake due to it's cushy conditions that include no barbed wire and cottages instead of jail cells.
b9Aga TIL that camels store upwards of 30kg of nutrient rich fat in their humps. During times of famine and drought, the fat is absorbed to nourish the camel and the hump actually goes limp like a deflated balloon when the fat is depleted.