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TIL the first Soviet soldiers to raise the USSR flag over the Reichstag were a small team headed by Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev, who sneaked into the occupied building and raised it under cover of darkness. It was shot down by German snipers the next day

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16w0r TIL Actress Ida Lupino was one of the first female directors with real industry power. Aside from Rod Serling himself, she’s the only person to both direct and star in episodes of The Twilight Zone. "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" and "The Masks" are both critically regarded as among the show's best
7rwMM TIL a 4-yr-old captive beluga whale who'd been living with belugas moved to a dolphinarium where her only companions were dolphins. In her early days with the dolphins, she made beluga "contact calls." Within 2 months, the beluga imitated dolphin whistles & dropped the beluga calls altogether.
lomZN TIL an extremely rare, strong cyclonic storm resembling a hurricane formed over Lake Huron in 1996. It was the first time such a storm has ever been recorded forming over the great lakes region.
wLOXJ TIL that when calculating percentages, you can always swap the numbers to find your answer. For instance to find 3% of 50, you can take 50% of 3 and the numbers will always be equal to each other.
D6LV TIL Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the most incest-friendly royal family in recorded history, and her first two husbands were her younger brothers