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TIL A fighter jet pilot shot his own plane down by flying into his own bullets

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44jo TIL that women’s voices are higher-pitched during ovulation to attract men for fertilization.
e0K1J TIL about the Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1956 China, in which Mao Zedong allowed citizens to speak out their opinions on the Communist regime freely before ending the campaign within a year and imprisoning those who spoke critically of the regime
N7y41 TIL In Medieval England, villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising up. They were so afraid of the dead coming back, that they chopped, smashed and burned their bodies to make sure they stayed in their graves.
vP5gx TIL of the Asiatic Vespers, in which king Mithridates VI of Pontus ordered all cities in Asia Minor (today's Turkey) to kill all inhabitants of Roman or Italian origin (around 80,000) on a predetermined day.
lAx5 TIL that crows (and other corvids) can remember individual human faces, hold grudges against us, and teach their crow brothers and sisters to dislike us too.