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TIL In WW2, a B17 called Old 666 had all its guns upgraded to .50 calibre and single handedly fought off a group of Japanese zeroes during a mission. 2 crew members received the Medal of Honor

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j6NyN TIL that Alice Munro, co-founder of a bookstore with her then-husband Jim, started writing after reading some of the store's stock and thinking "I can write better books than this." In 2013, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
loyEA TIL the infamous "Year without a Summer" after the Tambora eruption in 1815 led directly to the invention of the bicycle, as people were forced to eat horses and other farm animals due to failing crops. They were called Laufmaschine or "dandy horses" and propelled by Flintstone-style foot power.
yVPNa TIL that the oldest surviving intact videotape and kinescope program is “The Edsel Show”, aired October 13, 1957
rNYQM Today I learned that Donald Duck was legally drafted into and discharged from the US Army during WWII
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