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TIL Lockheeds “Rosetta Stone” breakthrough on stealth came from a math equation - courtesy of the Soviet academic Pyotr Ufimtsev who published his equation. The Soviets were not even working on stealth tech at the time.

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xVvWw TIL the clitoris of a young female fossa (a rare mongoose-like predator in Madagascar) enlarges and grows spikes to appear like an adult male fossa penis, to avoid the unwanted attention of older males
Br8pK TIL John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, has two living grandchildren. John Tyler was 63 when his son Lyon was born (1853). Lyon was 71 when Lyon Jr. was born (1924) and 75 when Harrison was born (1928). They are both alive today.
4X0pb TIL about the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe. They serve under the Duke of Atholl
r901 TIL That Rather Than Use CGI, Tim Burton Had 40 Squirrels Trained to Crack Nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
9wZWr TIL in 1996, some characters were changed on the children's literacy program "The Letter People". Instead of vowels being all female characters and consonants being all male characters, a change was made to make half the letters male and half of them female. Junk food references were also replaced.