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neKyd TIL in WW2 the U.S military initially recommended adding armor to areas of aircraft with the most bullet holes. However due to survivorship bias - where people or things that do not make it past a selection process are not factored into a decision - those were places that already had enough armor.
7rEpx TIL that Japanese barberry (a common garden plant) has been shown to increase tick abundance and lyme disease. It is also an invasive species in America harming many local forests.
kJok1 TIL that this brief interview in the 1950s educational series "Youth Wants to Know" is the only known surviving video footage of the renowned mathematician John Von Neumann.
p8194 TIL that there’s a deep-sea butt creature called the pigbutt worm
v14D7 TIL the color of the Sun is a composite of all visible frequencies of light which makes it perfectly white. We see it yellow because of the Earth's atmosphere. In space the sun looks white.