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TIL a unit of women aviators, known as the Night Witches, in the Soviet Air Force bombed the Germans during WWII by idling their engines and gliding to the bomb release site so that only the wind noise could reveal their position. They did this at night and flew with no parachutes.

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OoBLY TIL Yea and Nay don't mean exactly the same as Yes and No. They were for questions posed in the positive whereas yes and no were for questions in the negative. So answering "yes" to "don't you like it?" always meant you did like it. This removes ambiguity.
Oo1me TIL the U.S. Presidency has a 18.6% death rate with 3 leading causes: illness, natural causes, and assassination.
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