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TIL Boeing's 737 MAX software was outsourced to $9-an-hour Indian engineers

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6EWyJ TIL American black non-commissioned officers had to accept a demotion to private in order to volunteer for combat duty during the Second World War, so they wouldn't be able to give orders to white soldiers.
b6XLQ TIL the Netherlands has a Quick-Response Team of firefighters, outfitted with military-style tactical gear
yX5w TIL Kevin Plank, the founder of the American company Under Armour, opted to use the British spelling “armour” in the company name because the URL was still available for that version.
VMPY4 TIL over 8,000 pieces of music were secretly created in Nazi concentration camps; including symphonies, operas, and songs scribbled on everything from food wrappings to potato sacks. One prisoner composed an entire symphony on toilet paper using the charcoal given to him as dysentery medicine.
pdJZ TIL that Spider-Man can use his ability to adhere to surfaces offensively- once, he ripped half of a woman’s face off.