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TIL The U.S Army has been cultivating a special unit of whistleblowers for combating groupthink in relation to critical decisions.

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EapV TIL Red heads require 20% more anaesthesia then normal during surgery
wL9A8 TIL that 6.8T of steel used to build the USS New York was salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Center after 9/11
LQbjm TIL: When asked to sit in the White section of a segregated Southern conference, Eleanor Roosevelt refused to comply and moved her chair right between the White and Black seating sections and sat there for the rest of the conference.