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TIL during the Vietnam War, pilot Bob Pardo used his F-4 Phantom II aircraft to physically push his wingman's heavily damaged Phantom through the air to friendly airspace to avoid them having to bail out over North Vietnamese territory, even when his own jet's engine caught fire
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TIL A 2023 study found that Chinstrap penguins take over 10,000 micro-naps a day, each lasting 4 seconds. When combined, that totals more than 11 hours of sleep daily. They are also generally considered to be the most aggressive and ill-tempered species of penguin.[
M76Y0
Today I learned that Merv was once the largest city in the world