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TIL Nelly and Tennessee Williams went to the same high school.

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a8dpy TIL Cap Royce Williams, 99-yrs-old, single-handedly fought 7 Soviet MIGs during the Korean War—downing at least 4. The US was not officially at war with the USSR so his accomplishment was kept secret until Soviet Archives revealed it. Royce was debriefed by Eisenhower but didn’t even tell his wife.
0wxJM TIL Helen Keller was a co-founder of the ACLU.
JYJej TIL that an average mammal species survives for 1 million years, vs. 4m for marine animals and 11m invertebrates
XEvZj TIL prosecutors considered, but ended up not, calling a husband's parrot as a key witness in a wife-husband murder case after the bird kept repeating "don't shoot" in the victim's voice; wife found guilty anyway.
6989W TIL: of "Raining Blobs in Oakville,"** a phenomenon that occurred in Oakville, Washington, in 1994, where gelatinous blobs fell from the sky. These biomass blobs were at first reported to contain human white blood cells, while this was debunked their origin remains a mystery