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TIL Aviator style sunglasses were popularised by American general Douglas MacArthur when he landed on a beach in the Philippines during WWII and some newspaper photographers got him on camera

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4gA6 TIL China shut down nearby factories and ordered half the cars off the road to reduce pollution during the Olympics.
ANMDl TIL: Using data from 60 countries on road quality, traffic deaths, and vehicle crime rates, researchers ranked the most dangerous countries to drive in. Lebanon is #1 overall. Thailand has the most deaths. The US - #12, Russia -#10. The safest were Singapore, Switzerland, Japan.
kJrA5 TIL the cake on the cover of the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed album was made by the then-unknown British chef Delia Smith
5X78 TIL there is a game in the UK called “conkers,” in which two opponents will take turns striking the opposition’s chestnut with a shoelace through it until one of them breaks.
pWwN TIL that in 1971, 3 cosmonauts were exposed to space when their module, Soyuz 11, depressurized after separation from the world’s first space station. They are the only men who have died in space.