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TIL a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers drank a lot of whiskey and wanted a turn flying the Canadian plane he was aboard. He argued with the pilot and a fight happened. He died from being hit over the head with a fire extinguisher

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DDpj TIL eight of the July 20th, 1944 conspirators to assassinate Hitler were punished so severely, that they were slowly strangled with piano wire and revived multiple times only to be killed again. And all of this was filmed for Hitler to personally view at his leisure.
VBO0G TIL that Sofia—the first robot to get citizenship in any country—was given this status in Saudi Arabia on 2017. This was done in order for Saudi Arabia to position itself as a leader in AI Technology.
N7pGQ TIL of Joseph Medicine Crow who earned the title "Chief" by completing the four coups of leading a war party, touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, and stealing an enemy's horse - all against the Nazis in WWII.
YpnJv TIL Lt. Phillip Rasmussen was one of the few American pilots to shoot down a Japanese plane during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was flying an obsolete P-36A in his pajamas! After he was hit, he landed the P-36 without brakes, rudder or tailwheel, and with more than 500 bullet holes.
LQExp TIL that Alice Liddell, of "Alice in Wonderland" fame, was once proposed as a potential wife for Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the son of Queen Victoria. Years later, Leopold named his first child "Princess Alice" after her, and he was made the godfather to Alice's second son, Leopold Hargreaves.