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TIL Ray Charles and Clint Eastwood sang a song together

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P65V TIL During WWII, when he realised his guns had malfunctioned, an RAF pilot prevented a German bomber from bombing Buckingham Palace by cutting the German plane in half with the wing of his Hawker Hurricane.
pYxQZ TIL In 2008, a riot occurred during a football/soccer match in Democratic Republic of the Congo after one player was accused of using witchcraft.
MeXmm TIL the mutant heroine, Kitty Pryde was named by comic book artist John Byrne in honor of a former classmate to whom he'd promised to name his first original comic character after.
Lk74V TIL Dorothy Stang, an American nun who dedicated her life to preserving the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. She helped the poor by teaching them how to harvest products from the forest and sought to protect peasants from gangs working for farmers. She was murdered by criminals hired by a rancher.
9reX TIL: a russian farmer’s wife gave birth to 69 children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets… when she died her husband remarried and had another 18 kids.