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TIL British nukes used to be protected by bicycle locks

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OoDw1 TIL about Lt Commander Joseph Vaghi. He was an US Beachmaster during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, acting as a "traffic cop" orienting the landing troops. Giving orders under heavy machine gun fire, he ran into an old classmate, who asked him, "Hi Joe, what the hell are you doing here?"
jNKkX TIL that Sophie Turner adopted the dog named Lunni that played her character Sansa Stark's direwolf, Lady, after filming of Season 1 completed.
o1EL TIL A man in Australia declared his farm an independent micronation called the Province of Bumbunga. He decided to plant a huge scale model of Britain using thousands of strawberries, to attract tourism.
M7Loa TIL that in the early days of cricket being broadcast on Australian radio, the commentators would simulate the sound of the batsman striking the ball by tapping their pencil on the desk near the microphone.
QJY46 TIL there are only about 25 blimps left in the world.