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TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954

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5Vg58 TIL in WW2 the British emplyed Operation Window which used a highly effective tactic to jam German radar - dropping plane loads of small pieces of aluminum and zinc foil
awgQ9 TIL A good portion of the pre-recorded laugh tracks you hear are from the 1940s and 50s, so when there’s a funny moment on a sitcom there’s a good chance you’re hearing lots of dead people laugh.
4XJGg TIL that the same company that made the Rugrats and Wild Thornberrys (Klasky Csupo) were hired by the McDonald’s Co. to make a 6 episode animated series called “The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald”
QJnE TIL that in the 1800’s dummy houses were built in London to disguise the underground system in wealthy areas.
R7ER6 TIL: The Wilhelm Gustloff (1945) is the deadliest shipwreck in history in terms of number of lives lost as some 9,000 people perished aboard this German ocean liner after it was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine and sank in the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea.