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TIL a pegion named “Cher Ami” despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood and with a leg hanging only by a tendon flew 40kms to deliver S.O.S message & saved the lives of 194 soldiers in WW1.

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0wv0L TIL of Paul Michael Stephani, a serial killer known as the “weepy-voiced-killer”. After committing a murder, he would call the police and tearily confess to his crimes. He even said he would turn himself in, but never did. He was caught after one of his victims managed to fight him off.
dDwrQ TIL Though they have ancient origins the modern western popularity of earth shelters was driven by the 1973 Oil Crisis and back-to-the-land movement. However the most earth shelters are in Northern China, where approximately 10 million people living underground.
GmE7 TIL that William Boyd and David Bowie created a fictional (hoax) artist called Nat Tate with an aim to expose the pretensions of the art world.
4kojR TIL about British World War II general Bernard Montgomery first courted a woman in 1925, when he was in his late thirties. His approach to romance included "drawing diagrams in the sand of how he would use his tanks and infantry in a future war. This young woman refused his marriage proposal.
dD7ad TIL that a fire whirl, also known as a fire tornado, forms when intense heat and turbulent winds create whirling eddies of air. These vortexes, often visible through smoke, can pull in debris and combustible gases, turning into a fiery whirlwind.