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TIL about Jack Churchill, who fought on D-Day with a longbow and a broadsword. He announced his presence with bagpipes.

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R7X6a TIL that birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction, because they were small enough to burrow, had beaks and were smarter than other small beaked dinosaurs.
epgDD TIL In January 1962, the Flying Wallendas were performing a pyramid walk in Detroit Michigan, during the performance, one of the acrobats made a small movement causing them to collapse the pyramid and fall (they didn't use a net). Two acrobats died and one was paralyzed.
dDDA9 TIL about Malaga Island, a mixed race community off the coast of Maine that was forcibly depopulated in 1912.
k5ad TIL that there is a system for threatened airline pilots to remove control and navigation capability from everyone on the plane, including themselves, using an Autopilot that cannot be over-ridden from within the plane. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
9YW0D TIL that during World War I, a series of wolf attacks made Russian and German soldiers team up to fight wolves. After seeing wolves attack wounded soldiers and children, the commanders on both sides signed a temporary armistice, and killed hundreds of wolves. They then resumed fighting each other.