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TIL that the swastikas on Allied aircrafts in old pictures are called victory markings, and marked each Nazi plane downed by that aircraft. Bomb stencils marked each mission run. The names of pilots and crew were added before the craft was retired from duty.

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J1bD1 TIL that horses, ships, and gold, are notably absent in the ash of Pompeii and Herculaneum, pointing out that many people did manage to escape the Mt. Vesuvius eruption. Analysis of Roman inscriptions in surrounding towns found that they simply rebuilt their lives in nearby towns like Ostia.
QNE7d TIL Freshwater snails are one of the world's most deadly animals because they transmit the organism that causes schistosomiasis (aka bilharzia), which is, in and of itself, one of the most deadly parasites on the planet! Nearly 230m people were infected in 2014 and there are~200,000 deaths annually.
D7xV TIL that during the 1904 Summer Olympics Marathon, a Cuban postman who arrived last minute came in 4th despite running in street clothes that he cut into shorts and falling ill after eating rotten apples during a break he took in an orchard.
MRPb TIL there are no vitamins with letters F-J because those letters were used for vitamins that were “reclassified over time, discarded as false leads, or renamed because of their relationship to vitamin B, which became a complex of vitamins.”