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4Xkvb TIL that the SR-71 Blackbird was purposely designed with gaps in the body and would leak fuel, upon reaching high speeds the body would heat up and the gaps would close.
Krxa TIL Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief who executed a suspected Viet Cong officer in the now world famous picture taken by Eddie Adams, moved to the US and opened a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C.
oBVWA TIL the organizers of the 2012 Olympics asked The Who's manager about the possibility of drummer Keith Moon playing at the event. The manager replied that Moon was residing at the Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the line "I hope I die before I get old". Keith Moon died in 1978.
Oo414 TIL the UK has its very own coral reef - off the the coast of Cornwall is an 8000 year old cold water coral reef.
1aYW8 TIL that despite hosting the 1976 Olympics and competing in it, the nation of Canada failed to earn any gold medal.