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TIL the Apollo 11 mission spacecraft was off course 97.5% of the time

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XQeQ TIL a homing pigeon called Cher Ami that saved the lives of 194 soldiers during WW1 by transporting a message. The pigeon was shot through the chest, blinded in one eye and had its leg hanging by a tendon upon arriving with the message.
d80EQ TIL about Marinos Mitralexis, a Greek WW2 pilot who downed an Italian bomber by ramming when out of ammo, made an emergency landing and arrested the surviving bomber crew with his pistol.
VMV80 TIL the Black Death started in Hubei Province
4kgeb TIL that Portland cement's name is derived from its similarity to Portland stone, a type of building stone quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England
woo6J TIL that Stephen Stills auditioned for the band The Monkees in 1966 but was rejected due to Stills appearance and that he looked too 'old' for the part