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TIL Blackbeard’s flag depicted a skeleton spearing a heart while toasting the devil.

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DQVpV TIL about when two Lithuanian pilots, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, tried to fly a plane named Lituanica from New York to Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933. The Lituanica made it across the Atlantic but fatally crashed 636 km short of the goal.
v8OL TIL: That a fan once sent Tolkien a goblet with the words from the One Ring inscribed on it in the Black Speech of Mordor. The powerful spell in an accursed tongue led the author to never drink from it. Instead, he used it as an ashtray.
1JWd TIL inn WW2 the Nazis had a wooden airfield in Northern France, the British knew about it. Being British they let them build it and then dropped a wooden bomb on it!
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d8GQd TIL The city of Birmingham in England has a "Black Sabbath Bridge": A bridge named after the band, Black Sabbath.