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TIL Lockheed was originally “Loughead” but changed later to prevent mispronunciation

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loVM7 TIL Grant Imahara designed and built a robot for the Late Late show with Craig Fergusen:
a8WnA TIL in June 1942, Japan launched an invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, marking the only military campaign of WWII to take place in North America
PngL TIL that during the Nazi occupation of France, Hitler did not destroy the Canadian Vimy Memorial and told the Allies that it remained intact, as he admired the peaceful nature of the sculpture
edAk TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup
JdPl TIL Hitler used the slaughtering of Native Americans as the inspiration for concentration camps.