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TIL - A WW2 Observation pilot got bored of not being in combat and decided to strap 6 bazooka’s to his plane destroying several tanks and armoured vehicles .

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graVW TIL The Wiggles we’re the highest earning band in Australia in 2013, beating out both Keith Urban and AC/DC.
rNmLe TIL the interior of the U.S. Capitol dome is dominated by a painting of George Washington becoming a God.
LkDav TIL Granny Smith Apples originated by accident, when a lady dumped a crate of old rotten French crab apples in her garden and then later found an apple sapling growing there. The tree grew to produce green tart apples that had never grown before.
l4GN TIL in 1939 German health establishments were told to survey their patients for certain conditions. Believing it a prelude to a labor draft many overstated their patient’s disabilities hoping to protect them. It was really part of Aktion T4, a eugenics-based murder scheme with a 5-figure body count.
e0Ed5 TIL, UFO files released by Ministry of Defence shows that in wartime meeting, Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a ordered a cover-up of reported encounter between a UFO and RAF bombers, that he ordered it be kept secret for at least 50 years to prevent "mass panic"