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TIL websites know your exact geographical location because your Wi-Fi address has been collected by a Google StreetView car

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EbXW TIL that a Korean airlines accidentally strayed into Soviet Airspace, leading to the plane being shot down. To prevent such a tragedy, US President Ronald Reagan declassified a critical military tech and that is how we got GPS for civilian use.
Ooo7e TIL after analyzing losses over North Vietnam in 1968, the US Air Force invested in upgrades for its F-4 jets while the Navy created an advanced combat school for its pilots: TOPGUN. The Navy saw kill ratios climb to 13:1 while the Air Force saw no improvements.
Lk6RP TIL Oliver Stone’s original story for Platoon was called Break, based on his own experiences in the Vietnam War and set to music from The Doors. He sent the script to Jim Morrison hoping he would play the lead. Morrison never responded but he did have the script with him when he died in Paris.
4ZK6 TIL that architecture, painting, poetry, music, literature, all used to be part of the Olympic Games.
9YZ0Q TIL Police in Japan still wear white gloves after The Beatles toured there in 1966 and the authorities were worried about holding crowds of screaming girls back with bare hands.