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TIL - US Air Force honours their fallen with a fly-by salute, called “The Missing Man” in which the formation flies very low and the leader’s wingman pulls up rapidly, which represents departure to heaven. This is an aerial equivalent of riderless horse.

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wv4E TIL that in 1978 the Canadian Museum of Nature fabricated a heist story to cover up the fact that they’d misplaced their Goodwill Moon Rock. The story was only given to one person: the 17 year old who’d delivered it 4 years earlier. He later found it in 2000 in a giant warehouse for museum exhibits.
ADAOn TIL a California man was stabbed to death by a rooster at an illegal cockfight he was attending.
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oR9dE TIL Jackie Kennedy studied French Indochina and become passionate about it .Her fluency in French and knowledge of French History was particularly valuable, as she was able to translate French books, documents, and treaties related to Indochina, which helped JFK in his understanding of the region.