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TIL a Canadian Research Firm has developed Invisible Camouflage, and is sharing it w/ the U.S. Government.

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4X6Zb TIL that a British POW started a hobby of stitching while in captivity. His work was so good it was hung on the wall by the German guards, not realising the secret message stitched on it. The message 'God Save The King' and 'F--- Hitler' was stitched in Morse code.
nWlP9 TIL about Victor “Al” Pease, who remains the only driver in Formula 1 history to have been disqualified from a race for driving too slow.
9YXr6 TIL that there is a Portuguese messianic mystic belief called Sebastianism in which a child King from the 16th century that vanished in battle will come back to save Portugal in its darkest hour
8rr4 TIL that since 1945, the USA has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, most of which had been democratically-elected
D1E9p TIL that the word Antarctic just mean "opposite of the arctic."