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TIL that Baboon Mothers Carry Their Dead Infant Up To 10 days

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p8VDN TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity
nWJAb TIL: In 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building due to fog and pilot error. 14 people died, and 24 were injured. One of those injured in the incident, Betty Lou Oliver, was placed in a damaged elevator which fell 75 stories. Air trapped in the shaft slowed her fall, and she lived.
NXLR1 TIL During the American Civil War the town of Winchester Virginia changed hands over a dozen times between the Union and Confederates due to it’s strategic location in the Shenandoah Valley. A British observer called Winchester the "shuttlecock of the Confederacy."
8aw6P TIL about James Hugh O'Neill, the chaplain for General Patton's Third Army in WW2, when Patton ordered him to pray for clear weather, and the weather subsequently cleared, he was awarded the Bronze Star on the spot by Patton
awLJA TIL of the ‘Megatherium’ or Giant ground sloth, one of the largest land mammals known to have existed, weighing up to 4 tons, and measuring up to 6 m (20 ft) in length from head to tail, as big as modern elephants.