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aVmy TIL welders are not allowed to get MRIs because of the possibility of microscopic metal fragments lodged within their body
QXDE TIL in WW2 a US Captain founded a lighthearted drinking group known as the Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles. On induction a member must reply to the question “Are you a turtle?” with “You bet your sweet ass I am” as all members are assumed to own a diabetic donkey.
8aVRP TIL about Leo Marks, WW2 cryptographer, who was given a 20 minute training exercise on his first day at work which took him the whole day to complete. He had accidentally not been given the cipher key and ended up breaking a code that was meant to be secure.
xV8Kk Today I learned that a group of engineering students from Purdue University found that it takes 364 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
RB91 TIL Dwight Burch, a black waiter working at Apple-bee’s, sued the restaurant after repeated harassment by a black manager and won a $40,000 settlement. The black manager repeatedly referred to him as a ‘tar baby’ and ‘Black monkey’ during his three months at the restaurant.