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TIL humans are unable to burp in zero gravity environments.

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Z84LQ TIL about George Welch and Kenneth Taylor who were some of the only U.S. pilots to get in the air during the attack on Pearl Harbor. They are reported to have raced back to the airbase that morning after playing an all-night poker game. They managed to shoot down at least six Japanese planes.
Anj7 TIL Erwin Rommel as a junior officer in the German Army during World War 1, captured 19,000 Italian soldiers during the Battle of Caporetto over the course of 13 days with less than 150 men under his command. Six German soldiers died under his command in the battle.
R5Wl1 TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.
mX1Y TIL There is a key change in every verse of “I Walk the Line” and you can hear Johnny Cash hum before each verse to get his pitch (cannot unhear)
E6Xx TIL 24 out of the 56 countries and states of Africa are in a war or military conflict