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TIL there is a World War I fighter plane on top of a skyscraper in Manhattan

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5V9Ln TIL that twice a year since the mid 70s, Sweden sends North Korea a bill for 1000 Volvos they bought but never paid for.
0w99j TIL the atheistic Cult of Reason was sponsored by the French revolutionary govt. to replace Catholicism. Notre Dame's altar was dismantled, and provocatively dressed women posed inside representing virtues like Reason. Cemetery gates in France had to bear the inscription "Death is an eternal sleep."
8arG TIL that the funny hats worn by the British Royal Guard require an entire bear skin to make.
Lk8rV TIL about the Bengal famine of 1942-43, in which the British allowed at least 1.5 million Bengalis to die of starvation. Only when Ian Stephens broke with British censorship and published pictures starving people and bodies did the British start to provide relief.
X0aYD TIL Virginia Woolf, Horace de Vere Cole and others pretended to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage. They obtained permission to visit the HMS Dreadnought. It was reported that each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase "bunga, bunga!"