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TIL most coconuts in Thailand are harvested by trained monkeys

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lprA TIL So few Lamborghinis were ordered with a manual transmission that whenever someone did, the factory just assumed it was an error and made sure it was double-checked
wL8A1 TIL during WWII, Britain drafted women, starting with 20-30 year old singles, and eventually employing almost 90% of all single women and 80% of all married women in essential war work in roles such as as mechanics, engineers, munitions workers, air raid wardens, bus and fire engine drivers
XEmOj TIL the US Department of Defense spent $486 million on 20 planes for the Afghan Air Force which flew a total of 234 hours before being sold as scrap for $32,000.
OGxJY TIL that the creator of Space Invaders, Tomohiro Nishikado, developed the entire game on his own. He took on the roles of designer, programmer, artist, and sound engineer, and even built the game’s microcomputer from the ground up.
X06KP TIL learned that the German Railways (DB) is still working with Windows 3.11 (German source). Now they are looking for a system admin with Win 3.11 and MS-DOS experience but apparently there are struggling to find any candidates. No shit Sherlock :)