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TIL Rolls-Royce's Spirit of Ecstacy hood ornament doesn't have wings. They're actually billowing robes.

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woVwP TIL the U.S. military played Metallica records to weaken prisoners it planned to interrogate but stopped after the band objected stating it didn't want to encourage violence, according to the Navy Seal who killed Osama Bin Laden. They substituted it with Christian metal band Demon Hunter.
VM0K4 TIL that Rollen Stewart, the “John 3:16 guy” who would wear rainbow wigs and attend numerous sporting events while holding up religious signs in view of television cameras, is currently serving multiple life-sentences in California.
vNKR TIL Battle of Brisbane, a 2 night riot between US military & Aussie military & civilians. Afterwards, US Sergeant Bill Bentson said “It sort of settled down & you go into a pub & an Aussie would come & up & slap me on the back."Oh, wasn’t that a good ruckus we had the other night? Have a beer on me.
5bN9 TIL there is a light bulb in California that has been almost continuously burning since 1901, and has been cited as evidence of planned obsolescence in modern technology.
D0xg TIL that the director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogies, Sir Peter Jackson would like to direct an episode of Doctor Who, and he wants a Dalek in payment.