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TIL: America’s #1 WWII Flying Ace was Dick Bong.

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MJdm TIL of Jerningham Wakefield, a New Zealand politician who was such a notorious drunk, his friends would lock him in Parliament overnight to keep him sober enough to vote the next day. However, this failed in 1872 when his political enemies began lowering bottles of whisky down the chimney.
gMXM9 The earliest English word we have a record of was discovered during an archaeological dig near Norwich, England in the early 1930s. It was written in an ancient runic script carved on the bone of a deer: "raihan."
MoZV TIL 10-18 million Africans were taken by Arab slavers. This is more than the 12 million Africans shipped in the Atlantic slave trade, and 16-30 times more than the 600,000 slaves imported to America since 1620, which is less than the more than 1 million whites enslaved by Ottoman vassals.
E1pDo TIL to make this snowflake, it's so easy.
Jm9m TIL a woman in 2009 began growing nails from all of her hair follicles. 6 years later, doctors still have no clue what is causing this. Treatment to keep her alive is $25,000 per month.