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TIL In the wake of the Second World War, the US occupied Iceland until 2006

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RWpl TIL a modern jet fighter is purposefully designed to be aerodynamically unstable, with onboard computers which constantly work against this instability. This allows the jet to pull off super-agile manoeuvres by relaxing the efforts of the computer systems
BrjeD TIL the bands Three Dog Night name came from Aboriginal Australians. On cold nights they would sleep in a hole in the ground with a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and, if the night were freezing, it was a "three dog night".
aw5lb TIL Mary Tyler Moore helped to make animal shelters no-kill in NYC by co-founding an adopt-a-thon organization called Broadway Barks
1X68 TIL - 8 of the top 10 largest stadiums in the world are college/university football stadiums from the US.
mxWNO TIL that former heavyweight champions Riddick Bowe and Mike Tyson were in the same sixth grade class but didn't know each other.