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TIL a B-17 gunner named Maynard Harrison Smith put out an ammunition fire during a battle by urinating on it. He later earned a Medal of Honor.

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neMjG TIL that there was a real-life John Wick. Meet Chester Wheel Campbell, the king of contract killers in Detroit. Raised in a secret school of hitmen of just a dozen students, he learned the legal system, had high-profile connections, and survived 4 bullet shots (3 in the leg and 1 grazed his head)
wNpY TIL of tetrachromats, people who have four different cone cells instead of three, allowing them to see a hundred times more colours than normal trichromats.
BoWb TIL the President of the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network lied about being on the 78th floor of the south WTC during the attack. She was actually in Spain during 9/11.
OpgX TIL IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third party apps in 1994
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