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TIL Only 4% of Irish people have red hair

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NaeN TIL that during the Battle of Britain, German ace Adolf Galland was asked what his pilots needed to defeat the British. He replied “I should like an outfit of Spitfires for my squadron”; Galland had found that the British fighter was much more maneuverable than his own Bf 109 aircraft.
x6Pa1 TIL: that in 1676 a nun wrote a letter while claiming to be possessed by the devil.
6E5Rl TIL CBS’ online business carries a D- BBB rating for exploiting predatory practices that make it extremely difficult to cancel subscriptions, refusing refunds, and participating in misleading advertising aimed at signing up new customers through free trials
BrpRr TIL During WWII the Allied forces would drop clouds of thin strips of aluminum foil from aircraft to overwhelm enemy radar in a countermeasure known as “Window.”
4RB5 TIL that in 2004 the company Alcoa had to officially declare the proposed site for its new aluminum smelting plant in Iceland “elf-free” before it could begin construction.