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TIL Boeing built an entire fake town on top of their Seattle area factory during WW2

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AN9E7 TIL that during World War 2, a Great Dane named Juliana won the blue cross medal twice. The first time she was awarded with it was due to her disarming an incendiary bomb by urinating on it.
0WdL TIL Hall and Oates met on a service elevator while running away from a gang gun fight.
8ArX TIL Craisins are not dried cranberries (like raisins are dried grapes) they are in fact discarded cranberry husks re-infused with juice.
JVeV TIL that part of Pablo Escobars surrender deal was that he would serve his sentence in his own prison, guarded by his own guards. The prison also had a soccer field, a bar, a jacuzzi, and a waterfall amongst many other things.
e0EmL TIL: During the 14th century ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for 40 days. This practice is where we get the word "quarantine" from the Italian "quaranta" meaning "forty"