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TIL That the first spacesuits for the Apollo missions were designed by the bra-maker Playtex, not a military contractor. Their designs were so much better than anyone else’s that they had to be taken seriously.

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XEYOk TIL the word slogan derives from the Irish words sluagh "army" + gairm "cry". Its what the clan or army would chant going into battle.
MeoDA TIL Charles Lindbergh was a fascist and made several trips to nazi Germany in the 1930’s to inspect its Air Force. President Roosevelt privately called him a nazi.
4XNaw TIL Starbucks would not exist without the intervention of Bill Gates’ dad, who yelled at and shamed a colleague for trying to outbid Howard Schultz’ on Starbucks and steal “a kid’s” dream away from him. The colleague withdrew and Gates Sr. helped Howard Schultz fund the deal.
GYNJQ TIL that it was only in 1968 that the Navajo Code Talker program was declassified, and until then the US and not even the Code Talkers own family members had any idea what a big contribution they had made to victory in the Pacific theater during WWII
awEy0 TIL When legendary artist Salvador Dali went to a screening of a new surrealist art film in 1936 he became enraged and knocked over the projector half thru claiming the film maker had stolen the idea for the film from Dali's mind. He yelled: "He stole it from my subconscious!"