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TIL that the Sr-71 was so fast that if a missile was fired at it the evasion method was to outrun it.

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Me50b TIL the ship used in the filming of "In the Navy" by The Village People was sold to Turkey in 2002 and was sunk as a target ship in 2005.
kgM5 TIL a Univ. of Manchester debate on feminism and censorship was canceled when the student union barred both speakers due to the university’s “safe space” policy
ZLJ4 TIL that Sri Lanka and India were connected as recently as the 15th century by a chain of limestone shoals known as “Adam’s Bridge”
V8G8 TIL the battle of Cannae (216BCE) is one of the greatest tactical victories in military history and Rome’s worst defeat. With 50,000 men Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca encircled and destroyed a Roman army of 86,000, killing 75,000 and capturing 10,000. Hannibal suffered only 4,000 casualties.
4kgob TIL pythons and boas have vestigial or leftover pelvic girdles and hind limbs that show up externally as a pair of "spurs" near the base of the tail. Male pythons use these spurs during courtship and mating.