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TIL a 5-year-old girl from Oklahoma defeated 52 other children to win a regional spelling bee and qualified for the 2017 national event. She is the youngest participant to secure a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. She spelled such challenging words as jnana, sarsaparilla and Baedeker.

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yQ7ZX TIL that Owen Baggett, a Texas native, is the only known person to shoot down a plane while parachuting with a .45 during World War II. He did this after his own plane was shot down and a Japanese fighter pilot flew near him with his cockpit open.
WkLad TIL Chevy Chase pissed off SNL's first openly gay cast member by suggesting a skit where they weigh him every week to see if he has AIDS
eNgn TIL the oldest person to have ever lived met Vincent Van Gogh and called him “dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable” and “very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick”
xV5Ow TIL Soft-shell crab is not a species of crab, just a normal crab that has recently molted. It is caught and cooked before its new shell can completely harden.
MedyV TIL that there was a small horse called Thumbelina, who was just 43 centimeters (17 inches) tall.