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TIL that the first woman to fly combat missions was Marie Marvingt, who in 1915 bombed a military base in Germany. In her lifetime, she held four different pilot licenses, unofficially cycled the Tour de France, and was awarded a gold medal "for all sports" by the French Academy of Sports.

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d8rgQ TIL A team of economists at NYU found that getting off Facebook appears to improve people’s lives. Users who deactivated their accounts for a month seemed to enjoy themselves more as a result, showing decreases in depression and anxiety and improvements in happiness and life satisfaction.
5O5Q TIL that when the pope used to be elected, he would sit in a chair with a hole cut into it with his balls dangling from it. A young cardinal would then fondle them and declare “He has two balls, and they are well hung.” This was to ensure the pope was not a woman in disguise
wLQ0o TIL that Eli Black, then-CEO of the successor of United Fruit killed himself by jumping onto the tracks of Grand Central Station when his illicit bribes to the Honduran government were discovered. His son is now one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world.
ANG1n TIL Eric Carmen's (to me, Celine Dion's) "All by Myself" snagged its melody from Rachmaninoff's 'Adagio sostenuto', the second movement of his 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18'.
69MVY TIL that Duangphet Phromthep, the Captain of the Wild Boars Thai football team who were rescued from a flooded cave in 2018, took his own life in 2023