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TIL 3 of the top 7 longest confirmed Sniper kills were by Canadians

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WW74 TIL that in July 1917, the “Red Baron” sustained a head wound during aerial combat that knocked him unconscious. As his plane was spinning back to Earth, he came to and was able to make a rough landing.
4KAg TIL the remainder of the Pentagon Papers (docs leaked in 1971 which demonstrated that the US gov’t systematically misled the public about the Vietnam War) were fully declassified in 2011 and are now freely available online
Y76B7 TIL South Africa Was Banned From the Olympics For 32 Years Due to Apartheid
4rJ TIL John Wayne, in a 1971 interview with Playboy, said: “I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t feel guilty about the fact that five or ten generations ago these people were slaves”
6LlZ TIL that planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker is the only human in history to have their ashes buried on the moon