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TIL that in the years following WW2, Nazi German warplane designs were extensively studied and shared amongst allied powers and the Soviet Union. This resulted in the development of the Axial Thrust Engine, a design so cutting edge that its principles are still found in modern jet engines today.

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GOWg TIL Hawaii has a clock on a pole stopped at 1:04 am in a park as a memorial to the 61 people that died there in 1960 when a 20-ft tsunami hit the area, the clock was stopped by the wave.
QwV6 TIL that the Voynich Manuscript obeys the law of Zipf, making it very plausible that it’s either derived from a real language or is an incredibly advanced hoax.
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