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TIL Australian Don Ritchie prevented at least 160 suicides near his home which overlooked a cliff

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4k8oN TIL about the hindu goddess Kamadhenu, mother of all cows and a deity who is considered a miraculous cow of plenty. She was depicted as a white cow with wings, a female head and boobs and tail of a peafowl.
gaRy TIL An American woman sent her adopted Russian Orphan back on a plane to Russia with a note saying “I no longer wish to parent this child”.
l70EN TIL during WW2 the US and Canada invaded a Japanese-held Alaskan island with more than 35,000 men. After more than 300 casualties and the near sinking of the destroyer USS Abner Read from traps, mines, and friendly fire; they realised there were no Japanese on the island.
6EAGw TIL There are freshwater jellyfish in the Landlocked state of Arkansas
Yp9GG TIL before the D-Day invasion, Eisenhower threatened to step down because he wanted to divert Allied strategic bombers that had been hammering German industrial plants to instead begin bombing critical French infrastructure. The threat worked and bombing commenced, ending World War II.