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TIL immediately after the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, 3 survivors went to a farm for help but the farmer thought they were escaped convicts and fired a shot in the air warning them to leave, but they ended up convincing him they really were in a plane crash.

ANlBd TIL On May 1901, Connecticut became the first state to pass speed limit laws, regulating motor vehicles to 12 mph within city limits and 15 mph on country roads.
nw8P TIL Lewis Lee Millett deserted the US Army when he thought they would not enter WW2 and joined the Canadian Army to fight. After the US Army joined WW2 he transferred back. In the Korean war he would be awarded the Medal Of Honor for leading the last major bayonet charge in American history.
8aWE4 TIL of Koča Popović, a Yugoslav politician and Spanish Civil War veteran who is referred to as "The man who saved the Partisans" because of his breakthrough plans during Operation Southeast Croatia and at the Battle of Sutjeska both of which could have led to the annihilation of the resistance.
avxy TIL that eating meat, in a way, is responsible for us humans having a big brain, and that its hypothesized that if gorillas ate meat too, that after many years, they could be as advanced as we were in more primitive times.
OQ6L TIL In the 19th century naturalist John James Audubon observed a flock of passenger pigeons over Minnesota that took three days to pass his observation point and, in doing so it totally blocked out the sun so that the entire area lived in a bird-created total eclipse.