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TIL German airplanes “Stuka” did not make that screaming sound when diving because of their engine , but because they had small fans attached to the front of their landing gear that acted as siren. This will “weaken enemy morale and enhance the intimidation of dive-bombing”

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kORVB TIL in 841 Irish King Maelsechnaill I had disguised a bunch of warriors as women to tempt Norsemen into an orgy so they could then assassinate them.
VAND TIL that group “brainstorming” doesn’t work – it makes each individual in the group less creative. “[B]rainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas.”
YeVr TIL if a member of the US military or a US official is detained by the International Court in the Hague, the US has a law allowing it to invade the Netherlands to release them.
d9yQ TIL that 45 years ago today, on October 29, 1969, at what can justifiably be called “The Birth of the Internet”, a UCLA computer connected for the first time via phone line to a Stanford one, sending the first host-to-host message, logging on with the two letters: “LO” at 2230 PST, before crashing.
Ypb4d TIL Two 25m, 15,000 year old Mexican mammoth traps contained the bones of at least 14 mammoths, each of which had their left shoulder removed. We don’t know why.