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bYN7 TIL female pilots called “WASP’s” were employed to fly military aircraft. When faced with the ultimatum to commission these women, they were instead disbanded and told to be housewives. They were finally granted veteran status in 1977 and given the “Congressional Gold Medal” in 2009.
BgEQe TIL that Andrew Carnegie built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $303,450,000 (not adjusted fro inflation) which formed the basis of the U.S. Steel Corporation.
yxDX TIL An Iranian F-4 Phantom tried to shoot down an U.S. surveillance drone in international airspace. An American F-22 Raptor flew under the F-4 undetected, checked out their weapons, pulled up on their left wing, switched to their radio frequency and said ‘you really ought to go home'”
8eEbG TIL in 1999, the Georgia Institute of Technology created an organic computer out of leech neurons.
vPMGj TIL that during the height of the French Revolution, Notre Dame was rededicated to serve as a Temple of Reason in the course of Catholicism being banned in France.