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TIL of the Night Witches, a female only Soviet bomber regiment during World War 2. They would fly high up in their quieter WW1 bombers, cut their engines, and bomb the German front line in the middle of the night. This earned them the nickname "Nachthexen" by the Germans.

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W7DdA TIL in 2016 a man in China who took a selfie with a walrus was killed by the animal afterward, when it dragged him into water & held him under. Spectators & zoo staff thought it was just "playful behavior" at first. Eventually its trainer jumped in to help, but it killed him too by holding him under
oRwJA TIL about Charvaka, an atheisitc and anti-clerical Indian philosophy which rejected the Vedas and believed that all perceivable matter was all that existed in the universe. Adherents as a result were told to pursue a life of hedonism with no ethical or religous qualms as they exist to control joy
mxLyE TIL of Shaul Ladany, the current 50-mile walk world record holder and a Holocaust survivor who also survived the 1972 Olympics Munich Massacre by jumping off a balcony.
mx80x Americans waste a lot of food — about 133 billion pounds a year, or roughly one-third of all the food produced in the U.S.
M1gK TIL The firemen that went up on Chernobyl’s roof almost instantly received a fatal radiation dose when they looked down into the reactor to extinguish the flames. A scientist later observed their hoses dangling above the reactor, the firemen not there anymore. None were ever seen again.