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TIL a soldier in World War 1 performed a Battlefield-esque maneuver when he fell out of and landed back in his plane whilst attempting a loop

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wJ51 TIL the Portuguese man o’ war is not a jellyfish, but a siphonophore, a colony of creatures that cannot live independently of one another.
PY4Ag TIL about how medieval tax records were kept or why notched sticks were so important back then.
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