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R7lwj TIL Domino's Pizza locations in Scotland have official, registered tartans for employees who would prefer to wear a kilt.
GY4OG TIL the US Navy placed a top secret tap on a Russian underwater communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk after finding the cables' location was marked by signs along the remote Siberian shoreline saying "No anchoring - underwater cable".
BrZND TIL Frank Zappa's 1969 album Hot Rats was one of the first albums to use a 16 track recorder, and among the first to record drums on multiple tracks, giving stereo drums, all of which helped achieve outstanding technical quality.
0wpDj TIL when Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders made their famous charge up San Juan Heights, they were entirely on foot. The only one riding anything was Roosevelt. They'd left the horses in Florida.
691bl TIL, The First Death of a NASA Astronaut, Theodore Freeman, occurred because a goose flew into his aircraft during a test flight.