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TIL During the Blitz in World War II, some British farmers painted their cows with white stripes in case they wondered onto roads in the dark during blackouts.

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Z8Qo4 TIL of Sir David Brailsford, a British cycling coach who theorizes if you make a 1% improvement in a host of tiny areas, the cumulative benefits will be extraordinary. Utilizing this theory of "marginal gains"; his teams have won 18 gold medals, six Tour de France titles, and 59 World Championships.
NaeN TIL that during the Battle of Britain, German ace Adolf Galland was asked what his pilots needed to defeat the British. He replied “I should like an outfit of Spitfires for my squadron”; Galland had found that the British fighter was much more maneuverable than his own Bf 109 aircraft.
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