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TIL The first (UAV) unmanned, remote controlled, video camera guided aircraft assault drone was built in 1942

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wLYy6 TIL the city of Kyoto was originally the primary target of the atomic bombs in 1945, but was removed by the insistence of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who went there on a honeymoon and admired the city deeply.
VZ0Z TIL When you learn something new, for example someone tells you a new word, new piece of info, etc. your brain will start creating a frequency illusion called the Baader-Meinof illusion which starts to place the new piece of information everywhere and you will start seeing it much more frequently.
w4EM TIL when Rodney Dangerfield was asked how long he’d be hospitalized for brain surgery, he responded, “If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half.”
91dm TIL a woman stabbed her roommate and former boyfriend several times when he refused to stop playing his favorite Eagles songs on repeat.
KOOPR TIL: Recent Intel Chipsets Have A Built-In Hidden Computer, Running Minix With A Networking Stack And A Web Server...and someones found a way to hack it via USB (see comment)