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TIL that Colin McGregor, brother of Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor, is a British RAF pilot and goes by the call-sign “Obi Two”

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MemwA TIL: The 101st Airborne was nicknamed "The Chicken Men" by the NVA and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War because the Eagle insignia looks like a Chicken. North Vietnamese commander was warned to not fight with the "The Chicken Men", because you will surely lose the battle.
kbeg TIL of albino redwoods. Unlike most chlorophyll producing plants, albino variants of redwoods don’t die as long as they are attached to a non albino redwood that is able to support them. There are only around 61 known examples of such plants
N78Xb TIL That the USB drive does not get heavier as you store more files on it.
4k8oN TIL about the hindu goddess Kamadhenu, mother of all cows and a deity who is considered a miraculous cow of plenty. She was depicted as a white cow with wings, a female head and boobs and tail of a peafowl.
bAP9 TIL that some species of spiders form social groups and can reach populations up to fifty thousand individuals.