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TIL after having his hat shot from his head, bullets tear through his coat, and two horses shot from under him George Washington was able to ride 40 miles through darkness to summon reinforcements while suffering from a severe case of dysentery.

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GAQJN TIL Randy Rhoads died in a plane piloted by their tour bus driver that he took without permission after stopping to have their bus serviced near an airstrip. He made one trip transporting people but kept "buzzing" (flying right above) the bus to scare passengers until he flew too low and clipped it.
xVeJ7 TIL That in 1837, The Speaker of the House of the Arkansas General Assembly Killed another Sate Representative with a Knife Right on the Floor of the General Assembly. They were arguing over a bill about wolf pelts. The killer won at trial and was never punished.
a1a9 TIL some whales still have hind-leg bones, likely because they are descendant from land animals that returned to the sea
4Bvw TIL Fritz Joubert Duquesne lost his family and farm in the Anglo-Boer War, became a German Spy and Traveled the world under different identities till finally he had his revenge on the British Field Marshal that gave the order.
9eo7 TIL in 2004 Richard Dean Anderson was made an Honorary Air Force Brigadier General for positive portrayal of the Air Force on Stargate: SG-1