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TIL While parachuting, an American aviator downed a Japanese fighter plane by shooting the pilot in the head with his sidearm.

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78LVr TIL Joan of Leeds, a 14th century nun, faked her own death by crafting a dummy “in the likeness of her body” in order to escape her convent & allegedly pursue “the way of carnal lust.” She was discovered around 30 miles (48 km) away living "indecently" with a man & was denounced as an apostate.
x6lmg TIL: George Carlin was arrested for 7 words.
XVoR TIL that Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, is less effective in women weighing 165 lbs or more and virtually non effective in women weighing more than 175 lbs
wLbj1 TIL two tribes of chimpanzees were observed to have engaged in a four year civil war. The war consisted of separatists from an existing chimp tribe. The chimps engaged in cannibalism & they fought over territorial gains. The result ended in the complete decimation of the separatists chimpanzees.
8ayva TIL During WWII, the Amsterdam zoo hid around 250 people from the Nazis during the Nazi occupation of Holland.