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TIL in WW2 the Finnish bombers joined the formations of returning Russian planes and bombed the landing and landed planes.

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kJ6YE Til when Cleopatra and Julius Caesar met and subsequently became lovers, she was 21 and he was 52
yQbWp TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan is a retired Armenian swimmer. In 1976, after completing his daily 20-km run, he came upon an accident scene where a trollybus had fallen into a reservoir. Karapetyan dived 10 meters into the water and pulled 46 people out of the bus, 20 of whom survived.
X0608 TIL In Season 3 Episode 24 of The Office, Ryan creates a blog for Creed. Though initially it was a word document, it was later turned into a real blog. It is still available online.
e0MVg TIL that by far the most successful predator with a 90-95% success rate when hunting, is the dragonfly. This is in large part due to a combination of very high speed and their ambush strategy, allowing them to rush down insects before they know what to do.
GlJG TIL In 1943 a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers’ coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised “Irish Coffee,” creating the now-famous cocktail.