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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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p8nnG TIL that during the filming of Schindler's List (1993), when Ralph Fiennes was dressed in his full SS uniform, a Polish woman called out and said “how much she loved his uniform, and wished ‘all of you were back here protecting all of us again.’”
OrG6 TIL the highest verified blood alcohol level someone has had and survived is 1.374. It happened in Poland.
JYM6k TIL when Italian researchers gave lab rats MDMA (ecstasy) and played loud music, they broke out in a full blown orgy.
0n4N TIL Ronald Reagan was 3,761 votes shy, in Minnesota, of winning every state in the 1984 Presidential Election.
ZpDeQ TIL that Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina