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TIL that the 100th bomber group was so wild and undisciplined, that during a 1943 training flight from Kearney Field in Nebraska to Hamilton Field in California, 3 B-17s landed in Las Vegas and one pilot flew his B-17 to Tennessee to visit his wife! Their commander was subsequently fired.

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4XJXb TIL the most humane and least painful way to kill a whale is by strapping a bomb to it's head, because everything else would be to slow and painful, as they are so massive.
ne0YW TIL That Finland was ranked as the World's Happiest Country in 2019 by CNN
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