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696P8 TIL the Death Star trench run was modeled after a real world event: The Dambusters Raid
grEr9 TIL about the Battle of Jutland. Lasting only two days, it was the largest naval battle of the First World War, involving 250 ships and around 100,000 men. In the end, 6,000 British and 2,500 German sailors were dead. The British lost 14 ships to the Germans' 11.
4kg56 TIL General Montgomery had two puppies which travelled with him during WWII and he named them 'Hitler' and 'Rommel'.