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TIL in 1917, the German and Russian WWI forces stopped fighting each other to launch a joint attack against a pack of wolves that constantly raided them.

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Bgm4L TIL The Thunderbird Diamond disaster occurred in 1982 at Indian Springs AFB in Arizona. Four jets flying in formation dropped down to 100 ft at 400 mph as part of a training session. The lead jet had a malfunction and slammed into the ground and was followed by the other jets. Four officers died.
1a4n4 TIL: About Andy Warhol's failed assassin, Valeri Solanas. A radical who called for the elimination of the male sex to create a Utopia for women. She shot Warhol in the liver, spleen, lungs, and stomach and he was required to wear a corset for the rest of his life.
VBGWD TIL that “coulrophilia” is a popular subculture of the BDSM community involving the sexual attraction to clowns, in which participants often use clown related costumes, props, and personas during sex.
N7W96 TIL of Aeroplankton, the atmospheric analogue to oceanic plankton that deposit many millions of airborne viruses and bacteria every day on every square meter around the planet.
5ooQ TIL that a 2012 study concluded that pop music has grown louder and increasingly musically homogeneous since the mid-1960s