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TIL that two students were arrested in 1972 for a plan to poison Chicago’s water supply with typhoid, anthrax, and various other pathogens. Released on bond, they hijacked a plane and forced it to go to Cuba; one died in prison and the other eventually made it home, getting five years of probation.

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kJ5Ye TIL that during WWII, Ford's mile-long ‘Willow Run Liberator Bomber Assembly Line” produced B-24’s at a rate of one every hour. A symbol of American wartime industrial might, it exemplified how industry (and millions of women) pivoted to support the war effort, a vital part of the Allied victory:
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