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TIL: The US Army spent $5 billion on pixellated uniforms that did not provide adequate camouflage in any environment whatsoever.

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N7mEN TIL 6 out of 10 cars with the highest safety complaint rates in the US are Chrysler products.
kJVgg TIL that the famous bassoon opening melody from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is taken from the Lithuanian folk song "Tu, manu seserele" (O, my sister)
gEKL TIL Henry Ford once balked at paying $10,000 to General Electric for work done troubleshooting a generator, and asked for an itemized bill. The engineer who performed the work, Charles Steinmetz, sent this: “Making chalk mark on generator, $1. Knowing where to make mark, $9,999.” Ford paid the bill.
9wZgX TIL that at the center of our local cluster is an unknown gravitational anomaly called the Great Attractor, millions of times more massive than our galaxy, that is inconveniently obscured by the galactic plane of the Milky Way.
W88L TIL: Ant Scholar Ed Wilson created his own chemical to match the chemical given off when an ant dies. This led to live ants doused in the chemical being carried away into a giant ant grave.