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TIL The CIA and Skunkworks figured out a way to cloak the SR71's massive engines from radar

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jNNMN TIL that those white flowers you can blow are in fact the same plants as those yellow flowers you see everywhere.
y1dX TIL neutral Ireland captured both Allied and German POWs during WWII. Guards carried guns equipped with blanks, prisoners could receive visitors, and sports between German and Allied prisoners took place regularly.
e0O1k TIL in 1925 an all African-American baseball team, the Wichita Monrovians, played against a team sponsored by and made up of Ku Klux Klan members. The Monrovians won 10-8.
mxENR TIL, a Bugatti Veyron has 16 oil plugs and changing the oil takes 27 hours, costing $21,000.
mpXE TIL: After 18+ years marooned on an island, the real-life heroine the novel The Island of the Blue Dolphins died just 7 weeks after being rescued