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TIL that “shuttlecock calibrator” is a real job

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JYWE1 TIL cars like the 1968 Pontiac GTO or 1971 Buick Riviera and 1992 Nissan Quest or 1995 Nissan Sentra were designed by the same man - Jerry Hirschberg, who also managed to release a hit single in 1959.
b649p TIL nazi preparations to invade Britain (Operation Sea Lion) after France fell in 1940 were obvious to the British, so they began to bolster their defenses to make any invasion as costly as possible. This included removing all street, road, and railway signs to sow maximum confusion in the enemy.
xVrVb TIL a moustache is a beard
wjvE TIL The USSR named one of its last policies (which allowed the nations of the Eastern Bloc to determine their own internal affairs) the ‘Sinatra Doctrine’ - a reference to the Frank Sinatra song “My Way” as the Soviet Union was effectively allowing its satellite states to go their 'own way’.
JYQ78 TIL That not all Spanish speakers roll their ‘Rs’. The Costa Rican dialect does not have a trill, and instead they pronounce ‘Rs’ as an approximant consonant, much like in English.