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TIL that in WW2 the US Army issued manuals on how to perform in drag.

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e7b TIL that the Swedish fighter Saab 37 Viggen is the only aircraft to this day to get a radar lock on the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird .
d8Ky7 TIL that in 2014 China banned the use of puns and wordplay for comic effect because they cause 'cultural and linguistic chaos'
RAya TIL that the word “chortle,” meaning “to laugh in a breathy, gleeful way,” was a nonsense word in Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”
R59G8 TIL that in London, Big Ben has a microphone always next to the bell, so that it can play live the bongs at the beginning of the UK news.
4XvMb TIL That archaeologists in Egypt discovered a 3,000-year-old prosthetic big toe fitted to the remains of a noble woman. Made from leather and wood, it was refitted several times to exactly match the woman’s foot.