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TIL of Lyudmila Pavlichenko; a woman credited with 309 kills as a sniper fighting for Russia in WWII. That number of kills included 36 other snipers.

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R5raj TIL in 1961, a cow in Cuba was killed by a satellite fragment falling out of the sky. This is the only documented satellite-crashing-to-Earth fatality
xVyvk TIL Two touching stars were expected to fully merge in 2022. The resulting explosion ("a Red Nova)" would have been visible to the naked eye. Unfortunately, a small typo in old data threw the prediction off. Fortunately, the science behind the forecast is still sound, so we may soon predict another.
bQVZ TIL only two groups of people in Sparta could have their names inscribed on their tombstones: women who died in childbirth and men who fell in combat.
R7vva TIL of Mustapha Khaznadar, an ethnic Greek abducted and enslaved by the Ottomans as a child, who later went on to become Prime Minister of Tunisia. He was one of the most influential people in modern Tunisian history.
nWrxr TIL in 2018, the 120-resident village of Acquetico in Italy installed speed cameras after being fed up with people speeding through it. In next 2 weeks, it recorded 58,500 speeding infractions.