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TIL the first aircraft to be intentionally shot down by another aircraft went down on October 5, 1914, when the observer in one plane shot the pilot in another plane with a hand gun.

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6EZa7 TIL the comic book series, The Crow, was originally created by James O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death of his fiancée at the hands of a drunk driver.
KYeMJ TIL that the sharpest teeth in history didn’t belong to sharks or even dinosaurs. They came from conodonts tiny eel-like creatures that lived 500 to 200 million years ago. Their tooth tips were just two micrometres wide, about 1/20th the width of a human hair, making them the sharpest ever measured.
Y79rA TIL about Richard Sakakida, an American spy operating in the Philippines before the attack on Pearl Harbor, who spied on the Japanese community in Manila before he was captured after the fall of Corregidor. During his capture, he was tortured and eventually led a jailbreak of about 500 prisoners.
m1MyE TIL about the African eye worm, a parasite that can crawl across the surface of a human eyeball while the person is awake
KYRW4 TIL that Josephine Baker adopted 12 children of all skin colors, creating what she referred to as her “rainbow tribe” and her “experiment in brotherhood.” The children were all brought up in accordance with their heritage and the religions that Baker assigned to them.