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TIL the history of Londons stretcher railings, metal fences made from WW2 stretchers once used to carry wounded civilians during the Blitz.

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GYA7G TIL the first koalas to live outside of Australia were named Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, and arrived at the San Diego Zoo in 1925
Y71RA TIL: 152 years ago Samuel Butler, an English writer already warned us about the danger of AI in his book, Erewhon
MeA5A TIL that during WW2 German prisoners of Wars in Canada were so well treated that they didn't want to leave the country when released. Thousands of them eventually stayed or came back to Canada with one saying that the time in Canadian prison was "the best thing that happened to me."
YKAx TIL of the corn field bomber. A fighter jet that landed itself on a cornfield after the pilot ejected from it following an unrecoverable spin. His act of ejection changed the center of gravity of the plane allowing it recover. It went back into service after minor repair work.
v1Wmr TIL that the name of the mathematical function sin comes from the word "bosom" which was a mistranslation from Arabic