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TIL Guinea Pig Club - a group of Allied airmen who bonded during their extended stays at a remarkable burn recovery hospital started during WWII in England

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5an8 TIL that in 1940, while fighting the Battle of Britain and desperate to gain American support to win WW2, Great Britain handed over technologies to the USA that included radar, sonar, plastic explosives, the jet engine and the first practical calculations for the atomic bomb.
wLlYP TIL of Perkeo, a court dwarf in the 1700s, who would drink 5-8 gallons of wine a day. This impressed the Prince of Heidelberg Charles III, who made him cup-bearer and supervisor of the largest wine barrel in the world.
jbWj TIL that Nietzsche did not drink alcohol, writing that it suppresses the will to change our lives for the better
vPXD7 TIL that there are approximately 39,000 airplanes in the world right now. There have been approximately 150,000 airplanes throughout human history.
d8vrK TIL Jesse Dimmick, a fugitive facing a murder charge, kidnapped a Kansas couple in September 2009 and the couple escaped when Dimmick fell asleep. Dimmink then sued the couple claiming the couple had a legally binding oral agreement for them to hide him from the police.