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TIL Canadian Spitfire ace Doug Lindsay with 3 Wingmen were ordered to intercept 40 German Aircraft over France in WW2 and survived destroying 3 enemies.

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8xVP TIL reusable grocery bags need to be used over 100 times before they are better for the environment.
rR6WM TIL that November 9th is often called the 'Day of Fate' in German history - Robert Blum's death in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm's abdication in 1918, Einstein's Nobel Prize win in 1922, the Munich Putsch in 1923, Kristallnacht in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 all occurred on the same date.
OdL7 TIL In 2007 six live nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52H bomber and flown from Minot, North Dakota to Barksdale, Louisiana. For a whole 36 hours they went unaccounted for.
LQbop TIL the Federal Reserve had extremely large denomination bills only useable internally. They were not legal tender and citizens couldn’t own them
yjwa TIL that in Canada, a piece of land must have a tree on it to be called Island.