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TIL that F-111s conducted the longest fighter mission in history in 1986 as a result continental european NATO members closing the airspace to the US Air Force.

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VBGaZ TIL about the Academy Juvenile award, an Oscar that was given until 1961 to performers under 18 years old for their contributions to film. The trophy was half the size of the standard Oscar trophy and had such honorees as Shirley Temple, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
4vx5 TIL that during WWII, The Japanese would hand out candy to starving Chinese children. The candy was laced with anthrax (a deadly poison).
neORr TIL: There are no green mammals and they cannot make green pigment.
QN9Zp TIL During World War II, the Nazis replaced regular women with Nazi spies in a prestigious Berlin brothel frequented by top figures and foreign leaders, maintaining operations until 1942.
LkvZP TIL during Mao'great leap campaign in China, starvation was so horrible that people started comitting acts of canabalism which includes eating the death and parents eating their own children.