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TIL the Vatican has the World’s highest crime rate

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AbWo TIL in WW2 that Raymond Collishaw, leading pilots who were outnumbered and outgunned, flew their only Hawker Hurricane from base to base and on as many missions as possible to make the Italians believe that they had many. The plan worked as the Italians spread their resources out thinly.
QJl1L TIL about Gurkha Corporal Dipprasad Pun, who single-handedly held his post against more than 30 Taliban fighters. He fired more than 400 rounds of ammunition, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to thwart the assault on his checkpoint.
EggOP TIL the Ute people of Utah used to use fossilized trilobites as amulets to protect against bullets and diphtheria, and they correctly identified them as a marine creature.
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yV5XJ TIL that the animals killed by the south east asian poison blowgun called sumpit, is safe to eat.