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TIL that during the Battle of Mons in WWI, soldiers reported seeing Angels that allegedly saved the British Army from destruction.

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kGME TIL that Singapore Air flight 21, the longest scheduled flight, had special lockers on board to store the corpses of anyone who died on board, due to the lack of unscheduled stopping locations
R7by4 TIL of the New Zealand Black Robin that went from extinct to threatened after scientists found 6 males and 1 female on a rocky island isolated from introduced predatory species. today there are hundreds of Black Robins.
woV77 TIL 17 yr old future President Herbert Hoover showed great talent on the math entrance exam for Stanford but he never finished high school. He received remedial tutoring in August before he was accepted into the tuition-free university, and he vowed to help other students get a Stanford education
Jyx1 TIL an eight-year-old Bill Paxton was in the crowd the day John F. Kennedy died, and can be clearly seen in several photographs as he was sitting on the shoulders of an African-American man he’d just met.
yVKpv TIL: In the 1950s, to re-establish breeding populations, pairs of beavers were dropped by parachute in remote wildernesses. It worked.