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TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.

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4kvrJ TIL Jeopardy! contestant James Holzhauer is the 3rd highest-earning American game show contestant ever at $3.52 million & also holds the single-game winnings record at $131,127. He's the first & only player to win $100,000+ in a single episode and he accomplished this feat six times.
kpj1 TIL Amazon owns IMDb
PY0jG TIL The second largest air force in the world is the U.S. Navy.
M8xW TIL Finland and Sweden are the only countries in the world that have earned a medal at every Olympic game since 1908.
DNMY TIL: The SR-71 Blackbird was sometimes used to fly over our enemy’s territory during ceremonies involving their heads of state to constantly “sonic-boom” them. This was to remind them they were doing things counter to U.S. Policies.