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TIL that in June of last year, a swan living in Manchester, England died of a broken heart when teenagers threw bricks at her nest and killed all but one of her unborn cygnets and drove off her mate due to stress

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EKQV TIL The band “The Who” were banned for life from all Holiday Inns when Keith Moon started a food fight with a 5-tier cake, once the police arrived he stripped to his underwear, jumped into his car, drove it through a fence and left it in the bottom of the Flint Holiday Inn pool.
gGP8 TIL Soviet pilots delivered MiG-29 fighter jets to Yugoslavia wearing suits and ties, because they had to go back on a civilian flight, and there was no place for luggage.
WX78 TIL NASA use’s the film Armageddon as training. New recruits have to find as many inaccuracies as possible. There are 168, more than 1 per minute.
OoVA7 TIL The average American loses his or her virginity by age 17. Virgins make up 12.3 percent of females and 14.3 percent of males aged 20 to 24. That number drops below 5 percent for both male and female virgins aged 25 to 29 and goes as low as 0.3 percent for virgins aged 40 to 44.
vPPE4 TIL there is an enclave of Kentucky cut off entirely from the rest of the state by neighboring Tennessee and Missouri.