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TIL a group of 22 people is responsible for all US military patch and insignia designs

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Y7m9r TIL of Goodhart's law which states "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" due to people gaming the outcome.
e0WM4 TIL that Ho Chi Minh, Communist Leader of Vietnam, claimed to have worked as a baker in Boston's Omni Parker House hotel in 1912 and that John Wilkes Booth stayed in that same hotel eight days before assassinating President Lincoln.
PYZxg TIL Roughly four thousand years ago an Ancient Egyptian official, Baqet III, had depictions of jugglers engraved within his tomb.
4kPxo TIL a man survived a 324 foot fall through San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid despite landing on a concrete base. A guard heard him screaming ‘whoopee’ during the fall
9wxb7 TIL that gun manufactures lobbied for legal immunity from lawsuits, successfully passing the "PLCAA" in 2005