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TIL British reporter Clare Hollingworth broke the news of Hitler invading Poland. British embassy didn’t believe her until she held a telephone out of the window of her room to capture the ongoing sounds of war. Hers was the 1st report the British Foreign Office received about the invasion of Poland

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x6ZP5 TIL the defunding of the $11bn Superconducting Super Collider caused huge growth in the field of quantitative finance, as the theoretical physics job market collapsed overnight and PhD graduates had to find jobs at finance copmanies
Rwej TIL that during the filming for Top Gun, the cameraman pilot entered a flat spin in order to gain footage. This is the same flat spin that was portrayed in the movie which would ultimately kill “goose”.The spin was unrecoverable, killing the pilot/cameraman.
jNQRv TIL in 1909 two Latvian anarchists stole 80 pounds worth of coins from a factory across from a police station in London, sparking a two-hour chase now known as the Tottenham Outrage. The chase involved a football charging into a marsh at one point, among other incidents.
MQw8 TIL that a mailman managed to impost himself as a Senior physician at a German psychiatry and even held lectures for medical doctors without raising suspicion
ZRmQ TIL the longest ever recorded sniper kill by British Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison who had to aim 6ft high and 20 inches to the left. The bullet traveled 1.54 miles, dropped 400 feet, and took 6 seconds to arrive.