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TIL that helicopters don’t just fall like a rock if the engine fails, they can perform something called “autorotation,” where the rotor blades keep spinning due to air rushing up through them as the helicopter falls

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yMwe TIL that after Congressman John Rankin refused to sit next to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. because of the colour of his skin, Powell found every opportunity possible to sit close to the Mississippi Congressman. On one occasion Powell followed him from seat to seat until Rankin had moved five times.
oR5rW TIL a 2007 Consumer Reports survey of 1,057 participants found that on average American women owned 19 pairs of shoes (although they only wore 4 pairs regularly), with 15% owning 30+ pairs. In addition, 43% said they had been at least moderately injured by shoes before; 8% reported sprains or breaks
n6yW TIL After John F Kennedy’s WWII PT boat was sunk he wrote a message on a coconut asking for help. The coconut message worked. Kennedy kept the coconut and it became a Presidential paperweight.
pajp TIL in 1945 the New Zealand Division alone fought the Nazis to take Trieste, in Italy. When it was secured, US Marines organised a parade, headed by themselves with a banner ‘US Marines. Second to None.’ Behind them marched the NZD carrying a sheet with the word ‘None.’
P98G TIL in 1938 A Jewish man Joined the German army, and had his picture used in Nazi propaganda with the description “The Ideal German Soldier”