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TIL that Hervé Villechaize, best known as the diminutive Nick Nack in ‘The Man With The Golden Gun’, helped deal with child abuse in the 70s and 80s, going to crime scenes to help comfort victims. He would often confront and chastise spousal and child abusers in person, despite standing only 3'11".

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WkWJN TIL Chuck Yeager enlisted as private, was an aircraft mechanic before becoming a pilot, got shot down over France but escaped, had 11.5 aerial victories, broke the sound barrier and multiple speed records as a test pilot, and retired from the US Air Force after 34 years as a brigadier general.
j6oZp TIL Of the vegetable lamb of tartary. How northern Europeans explained cotton in the middle ages.
1aPeX TIL about PanAm 6039, a commercial "flying boat" that went the long way from San Francisco to New York, nearly circumnavigating the globe, in order to get home following the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941
wLZe6 TIL that Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have banned billboard advertising.
Ypr8r TIL researchers were able to predict whether or not a couple will stay together with extreme accuracy based on one partner’s reaction to things that excited the other. For example, if a wife says “look at that beautiful bird” and the husband blows it off, that’s a strong indication they’ll divorce.