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TIL that a Concorde supersonic airliner was once painted bright blue in Pepsi livery to promote the soda company's new logo. It had to slow down in flight so that the blue paint didn't overheat from air friction.

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VBmA0 TIL when making the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1976 album "Animals," a 12-meter large inflatable pig broke loose and floated over Heathrow, causing flights to be canceled. The pig eventually landed in a farmer's field in Kent, scaring the cows.
oweE TIL there was an illegal crematorium disguised as a ceramics plant. It was discovered when a man calling in to complain about the smell said,“Don’t tell me they’re not burning bodies. I was at the ovens at Auschwitz.”
nWlWG TIL the Battle of Nechtansmere in 685 was one of the most significant in Britain, because it smashed the power of the Angles, allowing the Saxons to dominate to the south, and prevented what became Scotland from being absorbed by the rest of Britain
JMQm TIL Amy of Amy’s Baking Company pled guilty to using someone else’s SSN to obtain a $15,000 loan in 2003, and spent 14 months in prison
E1xmP TIL most Koreans don't produce body odor due to large scale dominance of the gene ABCC11. As a consequence, deodorant is a rare commodity.