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TIL shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four Nazis landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York from a German submarine.

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X0mPj TIL a 2018 study concluded the mortality risk for characters in Game of Thrones was high after finding that more than half of the important characters died (186/330 - 56.4%) by the end of Season 7. The chances of a character dying within the first hour that they appear was about 14%.
dlKd TIL Henry Winkler (‘The Fonz’) has dyslexia, has written an 18-book children’s series whose main character is dyslexic, and he plays the kid’s music teacher in a BBC TV adaptation. The teacher is based on the one person who provided him moral support in his own schooling.
p8kgO TIL Grover Cleveland placed his first (illegitimate) child into an orphanage and had the baby's mother committed to an insane asylum in order to cover up the scandal.
16A8r TIL that Kruger National Park had a coalition of 6 Sibling Male Lions that conquered a territory of almost 170,000 acres (7 times larger than Manhattan). They killed more than 40 lions and cubs in around a year. The coalition lasted for around 16 years.
1aQlX TIL that Dundee United, a football club in Scotland, has played Barcelona four times and has won all for games, meaning that Dundee United has a 100% win ratio over the legendary football club of Barcelona!