› added 9 years ago

79

TIL that one of the principal designers of the B-2 Stealth bomber, a man who once deemed himself “father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking missiles” is currently in supermax prison for selling classified information to China.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VQaZ TIL that James Earl Jones once used the handle “Darth Vader” while travelling across the country and spoke, in character, to truck drivers on the CB radio. Apparently, the drivers would really freak out so he stopped doing it.
epWVb TIL that Margaret Chung, the first Chinese-American female physician, "adopted" over 1,500 soldiers. She treated them, cooked for them and gifted them jade Buddha figurines they wore around their necks.
b9OE9 til in 2017 McDonald forced the two locations that were still selling McPizza to take them off the menu
nWaN7 TIL 800,000+ kids go missing the USA every year, equivalent to over 2100 per day.
adlo TIL An Irish rebel died in 1798…while wielding a 2500 year old sword.