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TIL a severely injured pigeon saved 194 men during WW1
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TIL of William Jenner who died in 1798 leaving an estate of £2m. His heirs fought over his estate until it was finally consumed by legal fees in 1915.
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TIL that 17% of parents choose a name for their baby on the day the baby is born.
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TIL children’s writer and cartoonist Shel Silverstein worked for Playboy Magazine in the 1960’s
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TIL of Mitsuyasu Maeno, a right-wing Japanese porn actor who while dressed as WW2 kamikaze pilot made a suicide attack with his airplane into the house of ultranationalist Yoshio Kodama.
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TIL Ernest Hemingway mocked the interpretation of Chekhov's gun in his short story "Fifty Grand" with an example of two characters that are introduced and then never again mentioned.