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TIL Rock Band AC/DC, despite being one of Australia's most well known pop culture icons, declined to play at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 because they refused to mime as required by organisers.

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M7V9W TIL how dangerous it was to serve in the US Air Force in Europe in WW2. Just the US 8th Air Force alone lost 26,000 KIA out of a total strength of 200,000. Comparatively the Marine Corps suffered just under 20,000 KIA while having 50,000 more men deployed.
eQjb TIL The US Navy declassified a BILLION dollar submarine secret after it accidentally appeared in the film “The Hunt for Red October”
wooWY TIL The hood ornament on a Rolls Royce, officially called The Spirit of Ecstasy, was based on Eleanor Thornton, a British model and actress, and mistress of Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (and bore him a child), who died on the SS Persia which was sunk in the Mediterranean by a U-Boat during WW I.
L84m TIL that JFK awarded Canadian immigrant Frances Oldham Kelsey America’s highest federal civilian service award for preventing a major tragedy of birth deformities from thalidomide
LvXp TIL that half of all the deaths since the beginning of time have been caused by Malaria