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TIL The B-29 bomber program was the most expensive project of WWII, costing roughly ~50% more than the entire Manhattan Project

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gkX TIL Pamela Adlon from “Louis” did the voice of Bobby Hill from “King of the Hill”, Spinelli from “Recess”, and various voices on “Rugrats”.
8eGe4 TIL of the Erin-go-Bragh passage to Australia. Ever the witty folks, an Irish passenger nicknamed the ship the Erin go slow, as the trip took 196 days. The longest passage to Australia from the (former) UK.
wYb6 TIL that M&M stands for Mars and Murrie’s
0d6ly TIL the Allais Effect refers to the allegedly unexpected behavior of pendulums which is observed to occur only during a solar eclipse
rRDe1 TIL that the idiom "spare the rod and spoil the child" isn't Biblical or about how to raise a child but actually a line out of Hudibras, a bawdy poem talking about BDSM, among other things...