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TIL that, as a war correspondent during WWII, Ernest Hemingway took off his non-combatant insignia and posed as a colonel in order to lead a group of french militia into battle against the Nazis

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NDNP TIL: Sioux Indians peacefully surrendered as their land was being stolen, then still were attacked by US forces in the Wounded Knee Massacre
6E8XQ TIL a UK study found that in divorce cases, husbands engaged in affairs in 75% of cases, wives in 25% of cases. 53% of divorces were marriages that lasted 10-15 years, 40% ending after 5-10 years. The study found that if a marriage survives over 20 years it is unlikely to end in divorce.
18mD TIL a Canadian female astronaut was sexually assaulted by a cosmonaut on a training mission. She reached out to the CSA and was told, “That kind of behavior is normal for Russians, and it would be too taboo to complain publicly.”
GY9Q1 TIL a woman named Akiko Takakura survived the Hiroshima bombing while being only 300m away from the hypocenter
Yoor TIL since the early 1980s there has been a rumored top secret aircraft called the Aurora. Some still believe it exists, citing a $9 billion gap in the Air Force budget in 2006.