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TIL there was one Aboriginal Australian who served as a fighter pilot in WWII

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L8Mr TIL Nicolas Cage turned down a lead role in the Lord of the Rings franchise.
Br8PW TIL only 3 people have technically died in space. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 crew was killed at an altitude of 104 miles when the cabin depressurized. The re-entry seemed to go off without a hitch. But recovery crews quickly discovered the crew inside dead, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.
XE56Q TIL actor John Banner, famous for his iconic role as Master Sergeant Hans Georg Schultz in CBS' Hogan's Heroes, was an Austrian-born Jew. He emigrated to the United States in 1938, and sadly, lost many of his family in the Holocaust.
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m1lpv TIL that the first person to decipher an extinct language was the French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, who deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754. He managed to do so literally overnight by studying bilingual inscriptions.