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TIL that during prohibition a man used a WW1 German UBoat and would shoot torpedos filled with booze onto beaches

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Ego0P TIL that in World War I, a homing pigeon named Cher Ami was shot by the Germans, but managed to keep flying and carry the message of help. Thanks to this, 194 American soldiers were saved
6RG7 TIL that in the 1870s, a woman named Nellie Cashman organized and led a party of six to take 1500 lbs of supplies to 26 miners stranded in the B.C. mountains by a snowstorm, after the Canadian Army refused to act because it was too dangerous.
6EkwQ TIL that in 2019, for the first time in over sixty years, the United States exported more energy than it imported.
wLvp6 TIL The design of carburetors in British WWII fighter aircraft had a fault that would shut down the aircraft's engine during a negative-G force maneuver. In 1941 a female engineer solved the problem with a simple device, which British pilots then named after her. It was named Miss Shilling's orifice
rR8QM TIL that the International Olympic Committee banned South Africa from competing from Tokyo 1964 to Barcelona 1992 due to the South African government’s policy of apartheid.