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TIL That Prisoners made helmets for the US Military and thousands of them were defective.

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Oo6we TIL - In 1990, BBC’s Tomorrow’s World featured a white, sticky coating with astonishing heat-resisting properties, Starlite. In a demonstration, a raw egg painted with the stuff stayed raw in the heat of a blowtorch. The inventor died in 2011, having failed to strike a deal with any manufacturer.
E1moo TIL: During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Naval Command prioritized destroying Battleships over Carriers. The operational commander, Minoru Genda, defied those orders and assigned more planes per Carrier than planes per Battleship, in spite of carriers being lightly armored and easier to sink
yQrEe TIL that it can take up to 40 years after exposure to asbestos for any symptoms of an asbestos-related disease to manifest (mesothelioma etc). By this stage, it's often too late to do anything to reverse the effects of the disease.
8KXP TIL “Porn Judge” is an official Chinese government job title. Judges are paid $32,000 per year to view porn all day and have the sacred task of “returning the Internet to a clean and safe state”. One judge is named “Wang Dong”.
Wk8kA TIL that no significant nutritional differences exist between foods prepared by conventional and microwave methods.