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TIL that Missing Parrot With British Accent Returns Home After 4 Years Speaking Spanish

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KYm6G TIL the Trout memo (1939) compared wartime deception to fly fishing. Issued by Admiral Godfrey, whose assistant was Ian Fleming (James Bond creator), it inspired Operation Mincemeat. This plan put fake documents on a corpse, fooling the Germans into expecting an attack on Greece instead of Sicily
WkXWN TIL that Latvia once was an empire
ePWg TIL some millipedes will sing and give back rubs to relax a female while mating
Y7GRW TIL about the 2009 satellite collision where two satellites crashed into each other. Three years later a piece of debris from that collision passed the ISS at a distance of 120 m (390 ft) and all crew members had to take refuge inside two docked spacecraft
Ln0Q TIL Super Smash Bros, despite being over 18 years old, is still hosting tournaments and the 2 highest entry tournaments ever happened last year.