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TIL there is still a working cinema lit by gas. hyde park cinema, Leeds, uk

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nZRW TIL that in 2009 armed robbers used a helicopter to abseil onto the roof of a cash depot in Sweden. The cash was dropped into a local lake where it was picked up boat. To deter police the robbers used caltrops on local roads and fake IED’s on the police helicopters to keep them grounded.
GWO4 TIL the SR-71 Blackbird outran nearly 4000 missiles fired at it during its service life.
OGLP1 TIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"
awgPZ TIL: Colin McGregor, the brother of Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor, is a pilot in the Royal Air Froce. His aviator nickname is Obi-Two
X01WD TIL of Alfred Redl, an Austrian counterintelligence officer who spent about ten years up to 1913 sending major military secrets to Russia, including Austria's plan for invading Serbia, which Russia then handed to Serbia.