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TIL the British had to put 40 Apache helicopters into storage because they hadn't trained enough pilots due to the weather

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BrMb TIL A drug called DCA has been shown to work in a small clinical trial on brain cancer patients. Drug companies won’t invest in it as it is unpatentable and therefore unprofitable. Entrepreneurs banned from selling it in the US
KynE TIL NASA used 3D printing to make rocket engine injector, cutting manufacturing time from 1 year to 4 months and cuts costs by 70%.
gMpy TIL over 2000 years ago, Eratosthenes estimated the Earth’s circumference using good old math, without ever leaving Egypt, and he was accurate to within 2%
N7pne TIL of Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian, who died in 456 or 455 BC when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his bald head mistaking it for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile.
nVmb TIL that the first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman