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TIL a convicted member of the Mafia escaped from his prison cell by sawing through the bars… with dental floss… in the year 2000

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VM5QG TIL One reason the Lockheed F-117 and the HB1001 look like retro low-poly computer models is because they literally are. In 1974 when Denys Overholser leveraged 60s Soviet algorithms to calculate radar reflection, computers weren't powerful enough to reliably perform this function on curved surfaces
1aGg4 TIL during Napoleon's return from Elba, a Parisian paper printed headlines along the lines of: "Mar 9: The Monster has left his den. Mar 10: The Ogre has landed. Mar 13: The Tyrant has passed through Lyon. Mar 22: Yesterday evening His Majesty the Emperor made his entry and arrived at Paris."
XQAR TIL in Thomas More’s Utopia, Utopian couples would see each other naked before they got married on the rationale that a man would not buy a horse before seeing every part of it beforehand.
Kdx4 TIL instead of typing “reddit.com/r/cars” you can just type “cars.reddit.com”. (This works for any subreddit.)
DPLg TIL in 1938 Mexico was the only country to protest against the German annexation of Austria.