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TIL that the 442nd Infantry Regiment, composed almost entirely of Japanese-Americans whose families were interned, became the most decorated unit in the history of the US army during World War II.

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ADoag TIL, actor Clark Gable fought in WW2 and almost got killed once. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to noncombat duty. Also, Hitler was a fan and offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed.
p8lgZ TIL that the official state vegetable of Oklahoma is the watermelon.
r5Z0 TIL the wheel was invented thousands of years after boats, woven cloth, rope, sewing needles, baskets and even the flute.
4Mjo TIL that Goodyear developed a small inflatable airplane called the “Inflatoplane” with funding from the United States Army in 1956. The project was scrapped because it could not find a “valid military use for an aircraft that could be brought down by a well-aimed bow and arrow.”
jMPv TIL of Dragonskin a new generation of body armor. In one test this armor was shot by 150 rounds of various calibers of bullets including steel core rounds. It took a grenade at point blank range to damage the armor and yet was not enough to break through.