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TIL the British military determined that only 1 in 100 trained female soldiers had the physical capacity to function in infantry.

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4POJ TIL a Nazi officer saw a photo of Picasso’s Guernica, a painting highlighting the horrors of war. The officer asked Picasso, “Did you do that?” and Picasso said, “No, you did.”
OobOL TIL about food scientist Robert Baker who invented the chicken nugget in a laboratory at Cornell University in the early 1960s. He successfully created a "chicken stick" that would retain form when freezing or frying. Instead of patenting the invention, he sent the recipe to hundreds of companies.
g608 TIL that a German politician was forced to resign after publicly pouring champagne over a homeless man’s head
ANdG7 TIL Nearly half the world’s mined diamonds (by carats) are mined outside of Africa.
lwxG TIL James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered the helical structure of DNA, believes that stupidity is a disease and stupid people should be “cured”