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TIL of Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot from Decatur, Georgia who during the My Lai Massacre, landed in the village to rescue children from approaching American soldiers. Then, landed again, ordering his gunners to fire on the Americans if they prevented his rescue of other Vietnamese civilians

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M0d8 TIL Liv Tyler has two rock star dads. Until she was 8, she was told that her adoptive father, rock legend, Todd Rundgren, was also her biological dad. After learning she was the daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, she changed her last name and kept Rundgren as her middle name.
xkj0 TIL In 1945, Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.
W7ZOo TIL Mount Kailash is smaller than Everest but has never been climbed by a human. The untouched mountain is known as ‘kailasa’ in Sanskrit, which roughly translates to mean 'crystal'. In Hinduism, it is said that Shiva sits in lotus position, engaged in deep meditation.
OOma TIL during a training exercise in 1940, 2 Australian air force planes collided & locked together 1000ft in the air, yet pilot L. Fuller landed the entangled planes after all other trainees ejected. Fuller, aged 21, was commemorated, but died 4yrs later when his bicycle collided with a passenger bus.
Mo48 TIL Vernors is actually the oldest soda still being sold. It predates Dr. Pepper by 19 years.