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TIL an Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War named Hugh Thompson prevented hundreds of civilians at My Lai from being murdered by confronting fellow soldiers and ferrying civilians to safety by helicopter.

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EvY0 TIL chimpanzees prefer cooked food over raw food and would even wait for the food to get ‘cooked’.
4kv6w TIL there was an award-winning racehorse named Artax after the horse Artax in the movie "The Never Ending Story"
J1wl TIL Turtles can breathe in through their butts.
9YB1Q TIL there are up to 7,000 different languages spoken around the world today. More than half of the world's languages have no written form. It is estimated that 75% of the world’s population does not speak English.
l7GvK TIL that the Sun has a (very hot) "atmosphere" ~5x bigger than the rest of the Sun