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TIL 80% of lightning strike victims are male.

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D1dlD TIL of the Night Witches, a female only Soviet bomber regiment during World War 2. They would fly high up in their quieter WW1 bombers, cut their engines, and bomb the German front line in the middle of the night. This earned them the nickname "Nachthexen" by the Germans.
wLGe6 TIL of Si Kaddour Benghabrit, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris who helped over 500 Jews disguise themselves as Muslims by making the administrative staff grant them certificates of Muslim identity, which allowed them to avoid arrest and deportation.
XKNX TIL when volunteers providing food to elderly and poor people through the Meals on Wheels program began to notice that people were sharing their limited food with their pets, an organization called AniMeals was developed to feed their pets as well.
PdvV TIL of Whang-Od. She is the last Mambabatok (traditional Kalinga tattooist) and the oldest tattoo artist in the Philippines
GYEV4 TIL an albatross can fly for 10,000 miles without landing, and is the only extant bird that can reach those numbers