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TIL that bats are the only mammals capable of true flight

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vVJB TIL that although the United States Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, having no longitudinal bearings, need not keep to a time zone, as a matter of practicality they operate on New Zealand clocks since resupply flights originate in Christchurch, on the South Island.
4JaX TIL More than 60 percent of people in the US who die from guns die by suicide
v19r4 TIL, U.S Navy pilot David Mccampbell set a United States single mission aerial combat record of shooting down nine enemy planes in one mission during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf on October 24, 1944, while flying the F6F Hellcat. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions.
j6Z7N TIL that Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Peter Cushing were all a part of London's "Ghost Club," which looked for scientific evidence of paranormal activity.
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