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TIL one typo lead to the hire of a Geoffrey Tandy, a seaweed expert (cryptogamist) instead of a codebreaker (cryptogramist) during WW2, but the help of the seaweed expert accelerated the end of the war by 2 to 4 yrs saving millions of lives in the process

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4XvVN TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.
NAM1 TIL to understand diabetes, a lock and key analogy is useful. To provide energy to cells, insulin (the key) unlocks cells to let sugars in. Type-A is the pancreas producing too few keys, so insulin is injected. Type-B means rusty keyholes, which can be fixed with exercise, weight loss, or medicine.
51B9 TIL Andre the Giant once drank 156 beers in one sitting and his alcohol tolerance was used as a guideline for anesthesiologists when he underwent surgery.
0wWMj TIL Japan never signed a peace treaty with the Soviet Union after World War II, and is technically still at war with Russia today.
0wDM5 TIL: Hitler considered Islam to be much more compatible with Germany than Christianity