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TIL that Julia Tuttle was the only woman to found a major American city, having owned and developed the land that would eventually become Miami.

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vJDB TIL of Franz Stigler, a German ace fighter pilot who risked his life to spare and then save the lives of 9 Americans by escorting their injured B-17 bomber out of Germany. The incident would later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.”
jNpjM TIL of Dorothy Thompson, an American journalist working in Europe in the 1930's. She was granted an interview with Adolf Hitler in 1931, after which she referred to him as "... insecure—the very prototype of the Little Man." She eventually became the first American journalist expelled from Germany
MwK8 TIL Ethel Merman’s last film appearance was “Airplane!,” where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.
15jP TIL that a 46 year old man found and attacked a 13 year old kid because the kid killed him too many times in Call of Duty.
b9YJQ TIL that the 'B' in the word 'doubt' is included to keep its original latin form 'doubitare' which is also the root for the word 'double' thus to imply the state of being double minded.