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TIL Cap Royce Williams, 99-yrs-old, single-handedly fought 7 Soviet MIGs during the Korean War—downing at least 4. The US was not officially at war with the USSR so his accomplishment was kept secret until Soviet Archives revealed it. Royce was debriefed by Eisenhower but didn’t even tell his wife.

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LEOm TIL: a study showed that Harry Potter fans “tend be more open to diversity; politically tolerant; less authoritarian; less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture; more politically active; and are more likely to have a negative view of the Bush administration.”
W7MQ4 TIL, the sun in our solar system, Sol, is not a member of any constellation. Constellations are categorized by their shape as perceived from our solar system. Therefore, for Sol to be a member of a constellation we would need to travel to another star system to perceived the new "shape".
J1J78 TIL: Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, had a pet raccoon named Rebecca who freely roamed the White House.
9Yag6 TIL Emperor Qin Shihuang ordered the burning of Chinese musical instruments and writings because he considered them superfluous to Chinese culture. Later, the Han dynasty (206 BC- 220 AD) encouraged music and established the Office of Music which remained in operation until 1914
5EmQ TIL that a group of “illegal restorers” broke into the Paris Panthéon, set up a secret workshop, and repaired the monument’s broken clock.