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TIL that among captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.

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ep75J TIL Matthias Erzberger, the man who signed the armistice ending World War I on behalf of Germany, was assassinated by Far-Right radicals. The killers escaped to Hungary and were prosecuted only World War 2, while the mastermind later became a Nazi politician
rRKje TIL Stan Lee, had a contract awarding him 10% of the net profits of anything based on his characters. The film Spider-Man (2002) made more than $800 million, but the producers claim that it did not make any profit as defined in Lee's contract
Orpe TIL that the Shift key is called that because it used to physically shift the entire typing apparatus in typewriters in order to access the capital letter on each typebar
0lpA TIL that the word “man” was originally gender neutral and “wer” and “wif” were used to describe males and females respectively. This is where the words like “wife” and “werewolf” are derived from.
Wkv1A TIL The USAAF developed a copy of the V-1 flying bomb during WW2