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TIL that Gene Kelly was sick while filming the iconic scene from “Singin’ in the rain”.

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JYxVj TIL of Jenny Wade, she was the only civilian casualty of The Battle of Gettysburg. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the 3 day battle, the most costly in US history. Wade was killed by a stray bullet while kneading dough in her kitchen.
WkGwd TIL that the first American to die in Vietnam was actually murdered by a fellow soldier in 1956. Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. gave candy to local children when he bumped into a drunk colleague that shot him on sight. It took 43 years for his name to be added to the Vietnam War Memorial.
5YNJR TIL Scientists have known cloth masks helped prevent infections from respiratory droplets since 1897
aY9y TIL George Costanza had a total of 47 Girlfriends over the 9 seasons of Seinfeld
J1Da8 TIL about Lydia Litvyak aka White Lily of Stalingrad, the world's first female fighter pilot to score a kill in combat and later to become the first of the only two female fighter aces, scoring 12 solo and 4 team aerial victories in about a year of active combat duty. She was KIA aged 21 years old.