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TIL that the movie Twelve O'Clock High (1949), which features real footage of bomber combat from WWII, is still used today by military academies to teach principles of organizational leadership.

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kEY4 TIL During the WWI fight for Belgrade, Serbia, German troops encountered a very stiff resistance, so German Field Marshal August von Mackensen erected a monument to the Serbian soldiers who died defending Belgrade, saying, “We fought against an army that we have heard about only in fairy tales.”
1alZ8 TIL babies are born without proper knee caps. Instead they have cartilage on their knees that eventually hardens into bone. The lack of boney knee caps makes them more flexible during birth and while learning to crawl and walk.
w5o1 TIL when asked about his relatively low-profile film career after winning the Oscar with ‘Amadeus’, F. Murray Abraham (Salieri) said, “Even though I won the Oscar, I can still take the subway in New York, and nobody recognizes me. Some actors might find that disconcerting, but I find it refreshing.”
l71BN TIL that when an axolotl loses a limb, it can regrow the missing body part within a few weeks. regenerate its limbs, spinal cord, heart, and even parts of its brain! And it can also remain in its larval form throughout its entire life.
yVOve TIL: While the blue macaws that were featured in the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild in 2018, 8 Spix's blue macaws that had been raised in captivity were released in Brazil in June of 2022. They seem to be doing well and more releases are planned for December 2022.