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TIL that there was a real team of Jewish assassins who hunted down Nazi war criminals to avenge the Holocaust.

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4kEvg TIL about the first shoot down of a stealth fighter. The pilot and leader of the SAM site that shot him down are now friends.
GyeN TIL that Norinco (Chinese firearms manufacturer) guns are no longer imported into the US because the company tried to sell anti-aircraft missiles to US street gangs.
rRjny TIL that in late 2013, an 8 year old girl was orphaned after her entire family died because of a batch of old potatoes that her family had let rot in their cellar. Under the right circumstances, potatoes contain a toxin known as Glycoalkaloids, and this was released in gas form as they rotted.
MW7W TIL that during the French Revolution, radicals tried to introduce two competing religions to replace Christianity: the atheist Cult of Reason and the deist Cult of the Supreme Being.
wL84J TIL of the "American Hippo Bill," introduced in 1910 by Representative Robert F. Broussard, which proposed importing hippos from Africa to the bayous of Louisiana. Ideally, the hippos would eat invasive water hyacinth and Americans could integrate hippo meat into their diets.