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TIL Kamikaze Pilots were not involved with Pearl Harbor, only 1 Japanese pilot deliberately flew into a target after taking severe damage to their aircraft.

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N7jA6 TIL that the success World War II fighter ace Douglas Bader was put down to him having lost his legs in an aerobatics accident before the war, which allowed him to pull higher g-forces in combat turns without blacking out.
VNWG TIL in 1840 Abraham Lincoln and four other legislators jumped out of a window in order to prevent a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois state bank.
d8W9j TIL about a Chinese dentist from a small village who was put on trial for malicious slander and executed, for comparing a mango to a sweet potato.
oNrL TIL that Moscow is rumored to have a huge secret underground metro, called metro 2, that is bigger than the actual public Moscow metro and connects government buildings
veB8 TIL Japan provided almost $30 million from tsunami recovery funds to finance the country’s annual whale hunt.