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QNgDp TIL that during WWII workers at the Henry Ford aircraft factory Willow Run built a staggering 8,685 B-24 bombers in three years. No one had ever manufactured airplanes on such a scale before. At its peak in 1944, it produced a B-24 every hour.
LA8Q TIL Pablo Neruda always wrote in green ink because he considered it the color of hope.
7dPr TIL that technically a diamond will not last forever; given enough time, a diamond will decay into graphite
98AB TIL that a man who lived across the road from the notorious suicide spot, the Gap, saved anywhere from 160 to 500 people over a 45 year period, earning the nickname ‘The Angel of the Gap’.
rNNp4 TIL there are 21 sovereign states that do not have an official army