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TIL that most of the world does not refrigerate their eggs.

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9YxA6 TIL James Howard. WW2 P-51 Mustang fighter pilot who defended his bombers, alone, against 30 Luftwaffe planes, even diving on them when he'd run out of ammunition, until they were driven away.