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TIL about red frogs, an Australian organisation where voulenteers give red frogs and pancakes to partygoers.

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4kNLX TIL, Colonel Neel Kearby, an American fighter pilot during WW2 who was credited in destroying 22 enemy aircraft and received the Medal of Honor, was shot down and killed on March 5, 1944. All of his three children died in aircraft accidents in the US in the 1970s.
l7JOV TIL that every employee at the Hanford Engineer Works in Richland, WA donated one day's worth of their pay to purchase a B-17 bomber, as their contribution to the WW2 effort. The plane was christened 'Day's Pay' and flew over 60 missions in Germany
LQLer TIL that in 1958, author Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize in literature, but was forced by the communist party to abstain form accepting the award
WXMY TIL that a New Orleans police officer committed an armed robber murdering a uniformed policeman and two employees in the process. One employee hid in the freezer and was spared, the officer returned to “investigate” the crime and was identified by the survivor as the shooter.
Qena TIL when a US Navy ship returns from deployment the first sailors allowed off the ship are sailors whose wives gave birth while they were away