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TIL A WWII artillery spotter added bazookas to his unarmed plane, becoming known as ‘Bazooka Charlie’ and scoring six tank kills.

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ADX0o TIL that a German carpenter named Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Hitler in November 1939, only one month into WWII. His bomb, hidden at a speech venue, went off successfully but failed to kill Hitler, who had finished his speech and left early.
lovBA TIL The plane that dropped the atomic bomb cost more to develop than the bomb itself.
gMygy TIL of the city of Salonica in modern day Greece was for centuries one of the only Jewish majority cities but during Nazi occupation 90% of the Jewish residents were murdered and their cultural artifacts plundered, houses stolen, and the cemetery dug up and the headstones used as building material.
neeD7 TIL 45% of Americans have at least one Chronic disease
5Bbk TIL that Jericho Israel has been continuously inhabited since 9400 BCE and is thought to be one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in the world.