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TIL There hasn’t been a president with a beard in 103 years

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0l5R TIL During the second world war a Soviet pilot was shot down while returning from a reconnaissance misson and hid in the nearby woods, When a German fighter pilot landed nearby to investigate, the soviet pilot rushed out, stole the Germans plane, and flew home.
4kL0w TIL Douglas Crafut, an American radiographer, may have committed suicide by radiation poisoning
OOM7 TIL shortly after a woman made up a fake Facebook profile to speak with her troubled 19yo niece, the niece asked the fictional boy to murder her Aunt, her Aunt’s fiance, her cousin, and the family dog
Zpvd4 TIL that the iconic Ivy that lines the outfield of Chicago’s Wrigley Field was copied from Bush Stadium in Indianapolis. P.K Wrigley visited Bush Stadium and instructed that the Ivy be planted in Chicago to make the Stadium feel more park like.
XYjX TIL that the act of Kinetic Bombardment (firing large metal rods from a satellite into the Earth’s surface at terminal velocity as a weapon) remains legal