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TIL that inventors of the two most impactful weapon technologies of WWII, Merle Tuve (proximity fuse) and Ernest Lawrence (uranium enrichment for the atomic bomb) were childhood friends and neighbors from the same small town in South Dakota

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nWpbd TIL: Agent 355 is one of the first female spies for the US. She was active during the Revolution, but her identity remained secret. There is ongoing speculation whether she existed at all. However, many assert she was real.
4km4a TIL the biggest surrender in war history since WWII was on December 16 1971, when the chief of Pakistani forces, General AA Khan Niazi, along with 93,000 troops, surrendered unconditionally before the Indian military. India repatriated all of them by 1973.
p8NVZ TIL that Tarzana, Los Angeles is named after John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke a.k.a. Tarzan.
MQOW TIL if you get pulled over in Texas and you are carrying a lot of money the cops can just take that money.
XEddD TIL: the federation process that saw the creation of the nation of Australia originally involved Fiji and New Zealand. they chose not to join.