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TIL A future Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force decided to become an aviation engineer when as a boy admired the American planes dropping sweets to him and other kids during the Berlin Airlift. Dr. Yarymovych is also credited for initiation of the Global Positioning System - GPS

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j6QPX TIL that King Umberto I of Italy was eating in a restaurant when he noticed the owner was a near-exact physical double. It emerged that both were born on the same day, in the same town, and had married women with the same name. Umberto was shot dead on the day he learned the restaurateur was killed.
vP877 TIL about kopi luwak, an expensive coffee which is made of coffee beans that have been pooped out by an animal called a civet.
pYvkZ TIL Tacit collusion is when groups work together without an explicit agreement. One example is price leadership inwhich one company changes their prices and competitors follow. In one case automated price setting led to the book The Making of a Fly having a price of $23,698,655.93.
OpDe TIL that during WWII, a Polish Catholic social worker named Irena Sendlerowa saved 2,500 Jewish children from death. That’s more than the 1,200 saved by Oscar Schindler. She was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1965 as one of the Righteous Among Nations (a non-Jew who saved Jews during the Holocaust).
kOXrd TIL that it is not an urban legend that snakes could hide in toilets and attack the genitals of humans. It has happened multiple times in real life.