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TIL Owen J. Badggett became legendary as the only person to shoot down a Japanese airplane with an M1911 pistol, hitting the pilot in the head.

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x440 TIL In 2009 4 Ferguson City Police Beat A Man Bloody And Then Charged Him With The Crime Of Bleeding On Their Uniforms After They Discovered They Had Arrested The Wrong Man.
Nl5N TIL that David Barrett, an aeronautics engineer who resigned abruptly after seeing a vision of Jesus, spent 40 years single-handedly compiling the first and only complete list of Earth’s 10,000 existing religions and 33,830 denominations of Christianity. This led him to all 238 countries on Earth.
W4xB TIL a study conducted by American University found that the Toyota Camry (78.5%) and the Honda Accord (76%) both contain more domestic content than the ‘American’ Chevrolet Camaro (68%)
PYdne TIL that Jim Henson's puppeteers almost never broke character, no matter what happened
KYokG TIL in 1807, Aaron Burr attempted to lead a secessionist movement in the United States. Though his aims were unclear, with speculation ranging from conquering Mexico to taking the Louisiana Purchase, he was charged and ultimately acquitted due to lack of specific evidence of his ultimate goal.