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TIL an American Huey pilot stopped the My Lai massacre and risked his own life to save Vietnamese villagers. Landing his Huey between fleeing villagers and approaching U.S. soldiers, he ordered his door gunners to open fire if the troops tried to stop him or opened fire on them.

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QJggX TIL: The record for the highest note ever sang was by Adam Lopez, who beat the prior record held by Mariah Carey, by more than an octave, in 2008.
Bgrlb TIL the hummingbird brain is 4.2% of its body weight, twice higher than the human brain at only 2% proportionally.They remember well their migration routes, and the yard and flowers they visited the previous year. Some consider them sacred, and in mythology they are healers helping people in need.
9wrVp TIL that animals lacking teeth to grind their food (eg. birds, fish) have a specialized stomach containing rocks to replace that function.
1PD4 TIL fabric softeners carry a warning not to use them on children’s sleepwear but despite this, smiling happy babies feature heavily in its packaging and promotion.
JYej1 TIL, aroundf 2.1 billion years ago, there existeed several multicellular organisms, that were likely one of the first forays into multicellularity, they coincided with a brief moment of increased oxygen levels and went extinct after the levels dropped, they do not have any modern-day descendants.