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TIL Soviets were so helpless against the SR71-"Blackbird" that Reagan sent some to secret Soviet meetings, creating sonic booms and drawing figure eights over, letting them know they were being watched and can't do a thing about it.

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8eBlP TIL Philip Oakey of The Human League did not want "Don't You Want Me" to be released as a single because he thought the song was a "poor quality filler track." He finally agreed on the condition that a poster accompany the single so fans wouldn't "feel ripped off." The song became their biggest hit.
kJvw1 TIL that India is the largest producer of mangoes, it accounts for less than 1% of the international mango trade; India consumes most of its own production.
KOE86 TIL of Operation Moolah, a 1953 USAF effort to obtain a combat capable Soviet MiG-15 jet by rewarding any defecting Communist pilot 100k cash. The person who won it didn't even know it was being offered.
kJlvB TIL FBI added Oppenheimer to its Custodial Detention Index, for arrest in case of national emergency after they found that Oppenheimer was on the executive committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, which it considered a communist front.
awLaA TIL Jose Conseco skipped on a celebrity fight, sent his twin brother Ozzie (who had very obviously different arm tattoos)