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TIL Lieutenant ‘Mad’ Jack Churchill armed himself with a longbow and a sword during WWII and became the only British soldier known to have killed an enemy with an arrow

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8ayJP TIL in 1968, at just 20 years old, Fred Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact among Chicago's most powerful street gangs and organized a multiracial "Rainbow coalition" to help end infighting and push for social change. He was then murdered in his sleep by the FBI.
0wmm1 TIL Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee has a Recombobulation Area for passengers to put themselves and their luggage back together after passing through security.
GkZ5 TIL nuclear power accounts for 78% of France’s electricity production.
d8Eld TIL Jazz is the hardest word to guess in hangman, according to math.
RdO9 TIL: Jim Henson’s Muppets were regular “cast members” on the first season of Saturday Night Live, but the human cast members and writers weren’t entirely fond of the furry folks because they took away screen time from them and seemed childish. Jim Belushi called them the “Mucking Fuppets”.