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TIL grass snakes can live up to 25 years

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wx9P TIL that during WWII, Stigler a German pilot with 22 victories, spotted a badly damaged American B-17 Bomber. He noticed that the tail gunner was dead and they posed no threat. Instead of shooting it down, he escorted it to safety. 40 years later, the pilots reunited and became buddies.
Egno7 TIL that Senator Joe McCarthy defended top SS troopers after WW2 in what was known as the Malmedy Massacre Trials.
5VXQQ TIL about black swan events, major events that were rationalised in hindsight as predictable but were outside of the imaginable for people at the time of their occurrence . Examples for these are the 9/11 attacks, the start of WWI and the dissolution of the USSR.
j6OVX TIL the small protusion from our ears, near the canal, is called the Tragus and that it helps us collect and process sounds coming from behind us.
QJrvL TIL that classic rock musician Todd Rundgren formed a band in Philly in the late-60’s called Nazz that was moderately successful, while at the same time in Phoenix another band formed calling themselves Nazz also, but after releasing one single they moved to LA and renamed themselves Alice Cooper