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TIL the first time aircraft carriers were used was in WWI. First deployed Mid-January 1915 the HMS Ark Royal served in the Gallipoli campaign and throughout WWI. She carried 8 seaplanes that would conduct reconnaissance missions.

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BryVy TIL the civilian model for Hummer was made because of the persistence of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who saw an Army convoy while filming Kindergarden Cop and began to campaign for a civilian version to be available on the market
yEVw TIL of Green Run - a secret Air Force experiment that released Hanford’s largest single dose of radioactive iodine-131. Scientists let 7,000-12,000 curies into the air, traveling as far as 200 miles. For scale, Three Mile Island released an estimated 15-24 curies, Chernobyl 35-49 million curies
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