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TIL The Freakonomics guys showed legalized abortion has significantly contributed to a decline in crime, starting 18 years after Roe v Wade

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9Ymbm TIL about Operation Pluto, an operation to lay submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel in support of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII. The two pipelines, "Bambi" and "Dumbo", carried 180 million imperial gallons of petrol to the Allied Expeditionary Force in North West Europe.
JYoNQ TIL: "Coyote Time" is when game developers give players who walk off the edge of a cliff time before gravity kicks in to prevent rage quitting
d8ggd TIL The man who organized the anti WWII intervention America First Committee died in 2014.
pYnXA TIL in 2013, two men escaped prison by helicopter , but got caught a few hours later
R7JPa TIL Viagra is given to some premature babies to increase oxygen transport by widening the blood vessels, as their lungs often haven't developed enough to transport oxygen efficiently on their own