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TIL With one working arm, numerous facial wounds, and 8 of his crew dead or critically wounded, B-17 Pilot Lt. William R Lawley managed to fly his crippled plane one-handed all the way back to England, where he made a miraculous landing that saved the lives of all surviving crew members

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rRvr1 TIL A US Senator realized that the English translation of Mein Kampf left out a lot of the most hateful ideologies of Hitler and made him seem more sympathetic. So the Senator wrote his own TL:DR of the book so Americans would know how evil Hitler was.
epDW6 Today I Learned that the moon distances itself from the Earth by about 3,78 cm(1.49 inches) every year.
ANM5g TIL Tempura cooking did not begin in Japan, it originated in Portugal and was brought to the country by Catholic missionaries.
MeAV8 TIL that a strain of Anthrax virus, that had been trapped in a reindeer carcass frozen in permafrost for over 75 years, thawed and infected around 2000 reindeer and ended up infecting over 20 humans.
OGep1 TIL that before the United States Supreme Court held its Inaugural Session at the Royal Exchange Marketplace in New York City, city officials moved the market's butchers and placed chains across the street so as to spare the court of the sounds of the busy marketplace.