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TIL the famed Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group won the Air Force's first Top Gun-style competition but kept it secret until a historian uncovered it in 2005

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b0d4 TIL that when Mozambique gained independence in 1975, the remainders of the country’s 250,000 Portuguese inhabitants were given 24 hours to leave and were only allowed 20kg of luggage
rrwW TIL Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same date, 23 April 1616, but not on the same day.
PB0g TIL: Martin Luther King Jr, convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay in her role on Star Trek because of the inspiration she had become to many other people
Jonj TIL when Nicolas Cage was sleeping at his home, he was awoken by a presence. Cage awoke to find a naked man before his eyes, eating a fudgesicle and wearing his jacket. “It sounds funny” Cage said, “but it was horrifying”. Cage used “Verbal Judo” to get the man to leave. Cage now lives on an island.
6EjR7 TIL Dolphins sleep with one eye open and one eye closed. This is because only half of their brain is asleep at a time.