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TIL Canada made an actual flying saucer during the cold war

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gr8m9 TIL Ex British PM Margaret Thatcher was such a big fan of a political sitcom Yes Minister that she participated in a sketch written by her starring the main characters.
a89Z9 TIL about Phobos 1, a Soviet space probe launched to study Mars' moon. It shut down before ever reaching Mars because a technician left out a single hyphen in one of the keyed commands. All commands were supposed to be proofread by a computer before being transmitted, but the computer malfunctioned.
W79Vo TIL of Michael Hay, a British lawyer who opened a law firm in North Korea, which won some of its cases, but closed in 2016 due to sanctions
gkX7 TIL that, when Genghis Khan died in 1227, he ordered his burial site to be kept a secret. To this end, his heirs slaughtered anyone who set eyes on his funeral procession. They buried him in an unmarked grave and to this day no one has found him.
QJdG6 TIL Vince Lombardi, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins, was a big proponent of racial equality, as well as gay rights.