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TIL Walt Disney designed emblems for WWII planes and submarines.

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ZVMD TIL that between Egypt and Sudan, there is a strip of land that neither country will acknowledge as part of their territory. It is is one of the few unclaimed regions on earth.
x65oB [TIL] In the United States, a 'Heckler's Veto' happens when a speaker is silenced by the threat of antisocial or illegal acts of a disagreeing party. For instance, a peaceful demonstration is banned due to threatened violence by opponents.
X4m8 TIL Tolkien did not want the third LOTR publication to be called ‘Return of the King’, as he felt it revealed too much of the story. This title was chosen by the publisher.
OOQ4 TIL Clair Cameron Patterson was counting lead isotopes in rocks to find the age of the earth, after finding the age of the earth he also found out there was unhealthy amounts of lead in the atmosphere caused by tetraethyl lead, Patterson campaigned to stop the use of tetraethyl lead and won in 1978.
NXgvJ TIL that frozen embryos show no significant effect of storage time on post-thaw survival for IVF, and that pregnancies have been reported from embryos stored for 27 years.