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TIL During WW1, senior officers in the British Royal Flying Corps banned their pilots from having parachutes, claiming they would encourage pilots to bail out rather than continue fighting.

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aLwA TIL that in 1987 the NFL used replacement players due to a strike. The Redskins used a quarterback on work furlough from prison and another player, after scoring a touchdown, went over to the stands and picked up a package from his sister with his laundry because he couldn’t afford to do his own
QMEp TIL John Bramblitt is a blind painter. How does he know what he’s doing? First he uses fabric paint to create raised outlines, and then he can actually identify paint colors by their texture.
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