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TIL Russian women pilots during WW2 would turn off their engines, and glide bomb German targets to avoid being heard on approach.

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WbbL TIL it’s illegal to “pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb” a bald eagle in the US
j4oX TIL in 1980, the Soviet Union refused to host the Paralympics claiming that none of their citizens suffered from disabilities.
Z8alB TIL that blood from horseshoe crabs is harvested every year and is the single best way to test for bacterial toxins in the manufacture of any medical substance or device put into the human body.
JpGl TIL the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams of matter into energy.
ODj1 TIL A small number of prostitutes in Majengo, a slum in Nairobi, have shown an immunity to AIDS. In the past 30 years, one prostitute named Agnes, has had unprotected sex with approximately 2,000 infected men and still shows no signs of the disease.