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TIL that the USA may not had To nuke Japan at WWII. They invest millions in Bat Bombs that are seriously effective but in the end they were not able to control their bat/bird bombs.

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oVl8 TIL that the United States’ highest scoring Ace, Dick Bong, considered his gunnery accuracy to be poor and on one occasion actually collided with his target, which he claimed as a “probable” victory.
e0nOL TIL that Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in one section of Vienna in 1913.
E1547 TIL that the nautical terms for either side of a ship, Port and Starboard, were changed to the current terms due to the confusion caused by the old term for the left side. The terms used to be Larboard and Starboard.
NYme TIL that in 1993, an Indian airplane was hijacked at forced to land in Amritsar. Indian army Commandos then conducted an operation which killed 3 hijackers within 12 seconds, without any civilian casualties
OyKX TIL English is the only language to capitalize the first-person pronoun “I”