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TIL India's Only Flying Ace Was Indra Lal Roy. He Served In The Royal Flying Corps Of Britain. He Had Shot Down 10 Enemy Aircrafts (Nearly 5 Were From Close Quarters) At The Mere Age Of 19.

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AD51o TIL about the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a motley collection of barges and gunboats assembled to defend Chesapeake Bay from the British Royal Navy. The ships were scuttled to prevent capture, and the sailors brought the cannons ashore to defend Washington D.C. in the Battle of Bladensburg.
dDYkB TIL that in the 1980s Alyssa Milano befriended Ryan White(A Boy Ostracized For Having Aids) who was a fan of her works.She went on to appear on The Phil Donahue Show alongside Milano to kiss him on the cheek to show that she could not contract the disease.
gr9bb TIL That the movie The Breakfast Club was named after a nickname for morning detention at the high school the movie was filmed at
1anyP TIL about Martin Couney who ran a sideshow on Coney Island full of incubators to save premie babies. He is credited with saving over 6000 babies in the decades he ran the exhibit.
OaOe TIL that 74 men died after their submarine, USS Tang, torpedoed itself during a combat patrol.