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TIL that cows have different accents, depending on which herd they come from.

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PYO0g TIL in 1941, when a General asked Winston Churchill for more men to man Antiaircraft guns, Churchill replied "No, I can’t spare any men, you’ll have to use women." Mary Churchill (18), Winston Churchill's youngest daughter was among the first to join and rose to the rank of Junior Commander in 1944.
5V57B TIL in 1954, Jim Lovell lost his navigation systems while flying at night over the Sea of Japan. He was able to locate his carrier using the bioluminescence of dinoflagellates in its wake and successfully land. He would later go on to land the damaged Apollo 13 capsule.
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