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TIL that the fatality rate was so high for airmen in the WWII years of 1942-1943, it was statistically impossible for a flight crew to finish a 25-mission tour in Europe

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OGQwL TIL that when Germans move house it is very common for them to take the entire kitchen with them, cabinets and all!
PwoE TIL a “London Fog” was yellow smog so thick you couldn’t see the ground. These “pea soupers” often carried toxic chemicals and one in 1952 killed 4,000 people in five days. Due to the Clean Air Act the last London Fog was in 1962.
VMbAG TIL that oranges from Florida are artificially dyed to look good to shoppers because they are still green when ripe
oDYL TIL In 2008, two researchers, a linguist and a sound engineer, found “the perfect male voice” to be a combination of Iron’s and Alan Rickman’s voices based on a sample of 50 voices. Coincidentally, the two actors played brothers in the Die Hard series of films.
6ErM7 TIL that the animal in the logo of Mozilla Firefox is not a fox, but a red panda, also called firefox in chinese