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TIL: sleeve Chevrons used in military rank insignias typically point down in the US Navy & US Air force & Commonwealth countries. In the US Army & US Marine Corps Chevrons point up.

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X5Lj TIL that when a kid lied to his friends about being Jay Leno’s nephew, Jay Leno helped the kid out by dropping him off at school in a Lamborghini Countach.
pYeGZ TIL of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was falsely convicted of killing 4 children under her care. She spent 6 years in jail before she was exonerated.
64jZ TIL after X-raying a prayer book from the 13th century scientists discovered the pages had readable traces of an unknown work by Archimedes. The remarkable work book contained treatises on infinity written 2,000 years before anyone else thought up the concept.
Ypr1W TIL that John B. Goodenough (apart from the very interesting name) was a Nobel laureate in chemistry who is credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery, and for seminal developments in computer random-access memory.
XENwE TIL that Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois has a bulldozer underneath the field. During construction of the stadium, torrential rains caused a bulldozer to sink into the mud. Being too expensive to remove, the bulldozer remains buried beneath the field as of this day