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TIL in WW2, US soldiers often shaped pieces of plexiglass from downed planes into pistol grips, so they can put pics of their wives and girlfriends on their pistols (Pics in link)

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DQNBv TIL Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first practical telephone, was partly driven to experiment with hearing devices because both his mother and his wife were deaf.
6E5Z TIL on September 7, 1978, a Bulgarian Dissident Writer named Georgi Markov was waiting at a bus stop in London when he felt what he thought was a bug bite. Three days later he died, having been shot in the leg with a sophisticated umbrella-gun loaded with a bullet containing ricin poison.
yYR8 TIL that pigeons, penguins and flamingos don’t feed their newborne young regurgitated food but instead puke up their own cells from the crop and esophagus made specifically to feed young. The sloughed cells have more protein and fat than mammalian milk.
Lk5NV TIL About one of the few validated cases of a person to have lived in three separate centuries | Margaret Ann Neve (18 May 1792 – 4 April 1903) is also the oldest person born in the 1700's
x68rk TIL at over 100 years old, Iris Cummings is the sole surviving attendee of the 1936 Nazi-Germany Olympics