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TIL Ohio State University has the largest collection of manga in the world outside of Japan

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P1bdJ TIL that the Norden Bombsight used by US Bomber aircraft in WWII cost $1.1 billion to research and produce, about half as much as the Manhattan Project and over a quarter of the cost of all B-17 bombers manufactured. While successfully precise in Stateside testing it was far less accurate in combat.
lorEK TIL The first woman mathematician recorded by history was Hypatia of Alexandria (AD 350 - 415).
KeXQ TIL in 2015 Beijing banned 2.5 million cars for two weeks to get beautiful blue skies for a World War II parade.
8eKYL TIL Ray Bradbury's story a sound of thunder predates the theory of the Butterfly Effect, but uses a butterfly to make the same example of chaos theory....
dDmME TIL that a few people have been given at birth the first name Camera. According to the SSA, in 2003 it was the 8,511 most given baby boy name in the United States.