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TIL The Rolls Royce Merlin V12 aviation engine created so much thrust from the exhaust, engineers were able to angle the exhaust backwards to gain 10 mph in the Spitfire it powered.

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wLXrJ TIL that during the 80 Years War the Dutch defeated the invading Spanish by flooding their cities and farm lands. When winter arrived, Dutch soldiers used ice skates to quickly advance, fire muskets and retreat quickly to reload. The Spanish were then lured to, and fell through, thin ice.
BaWr TIL a Greek gambler by the name of Archie Karas went on a 3-year winning streak during which he turned $50 into over $40,000,000.
RDYl TIL When Ronald Reagan became president of the United States he asked his Chief of Staff to see “The War Room”. No one had informed him that it was only a movie set that was created fictionally for the black comedy “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.
N7bEE TIL that coconuts transported themselves around the world by foating through the sea. This one reason (along with human interferance) that coconuts are so widespread worldwide. So, yes, coconuts do migrate.
WyW9 TIL that in “the Big Lebowski,” actor Jeff Bridges says the word “man” 147 times. That’s about 1.5 times per minute