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TIL: Cuba was caught sending Weapons to North Korea just over a year ago

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0weev TIL Wind turbines are painted white to help them both blend in and to stand out. White or light grey helps them ‘blend’ into the background, when the sky is cloudy. From the air the white color helps them stand out to planes. The same colour has two strikingly opposed purposes.
b6Rya TIL that the flexbone formation in American football which is commonly used by military academies to run the triple option was actually first used in the run and shoot offense,which is a pass heavy offense
Y7gAd TIL of UK conservative MP Stephen Milligan who died in 1994 of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Milligan’s body was found naked wearing only stockings and suspenders, with an orange in his mouth.
kOxQE TIL that Dock Ellis threw a no hitter while on LSD
kJrx1 TIL after the Tenerife disaster, KLM looked for their most senior pilot to lead the investigation, only to learn that he was the pilot responsible for the crash