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TIL that during the Falklands war, the British Navy mistook whales for submarines and torpedoed them

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KLXa TIL That the prototypes for the first Stealth fighter were produced in the late 1970’s and cost just $35 million for the entire program. The aircraft, called “HAVE BLUE”, were designed by just a handful of engineers, and put together using left over parts from other more widely known aircraft.
xa5k TIL some U.S. bars and restaurants have been misleading patrons by replacing their standard 16-ounce pint glasses with nearly identical looking 14-ounce glasses
P1Mn TIL Enigma (German WWII encryption) was broken in part because operators used guessable passcodes, including letter repeats, adjacent key letters, four letter German names, and obscenities.
7rLgx TIL there are ten different indigenous languages still spoken today in the British Isles; English, Scots, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Angloromani, Shelta and British Sign Language
Wk6Jd TIL that the “pink hat man” is a 72 year old man who who owns Cub’s tickets and sits behind home plate but wears a pink hat so his wife knows that he is at the game and not cheating.