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TIL about the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka. It was a rocket-powered human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft. Although extremely fast, the very short range of the Ohka meant that it had to be carried into action as a parasite aircraft by a much larger bomber

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AD66l TIL about CRAF, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. It requires some airlines to reserve a portion of their fleet for military deployments that are on-call & ready within 24-48hrs, should demand exceed military resources. Lately, it is one of the reasons why the govt. will continue bail out the airlines.
0dZpj TIL 1968 Night of the Living Dead premiered in the afternoon when children and parents often attended. Thinking the movie would be 'delightfully horror', by the time the movie ended, the theatre and children were still, with some crying, for many, it was the first time ever seeing the hero die
AN9Pa TIL: The Gundam series idea of dropping space colonies on Earth was based on a real concept developed in the 1960s known as Ivan's hammer at the annual American Astronautical Society. Which described the use of asteroids as WMDs. Decades later, Carl Sagan and the RAND Corp discussed the feasibility.
LkJd TIL: The World Population margin of error is 56 million. Statistically speaking, Australia and New Zealand may be entirely uninhabited.
gM1pb TIL about Pando,the largest (6 million kilograms) and one of the oldest (~80,000 years old) organisms on earth. Because quaking aspen trees reproduce better through suckering than seeding, the 106 acre grove of quaking aspens in south central Utah is a single organism with shared genetic code.