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TIL In 2002, BBC News Accidentally Used The UNSC Logo From The Halo Video Game Series Assuming It Was For The 'United Nations Security Council'

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kJkdB TIL Sir Admiral "Blinker" Hall became the UK's Director of Naval Intelligence—a desk job—and played an outsize role in getting the United States into World War I because commanding ships made him seasick.
bEy9 TIL a man was writing articles and reporting about deaths of people who he actually killed. He was arrested when they found out he had more information than the police.
ZpZ4G TIL The extra bulbs with a red tip that you get with Christmas lights will make the lights after it blink.
OonZR TIL: Gay male victims of the Holocaust, who wore the downward-facing pink triangle, were still considered to be criminals when they were freed from concentration camps. They were often sent back to prison to serve out their terms.
6KyJ TIL The F15 was the first fighter jet to exceed the speed of sound in vertical flight, and had so much thrust it could climb 65,000ft in 122 seconds.