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TIL In the Battle of Port-en-Bessin, after D Day, British commandos (outnumbered 4 to 1 by the Germans) fought their way up through concrete, entrenchments, mines & barbed wire defences to take German positions one-by-one

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KYA64 TIL early movie projectors utilized primitive arc lights which were very bright but had a tendency to flicker, especially if they were not properly maintained. It is because of this flickering that movies came to be called "flicks".
VBMBQ TIL that actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was the key person behind a WW2 water-borne deception force that created enough German uncertainty that they held back an entire German Reserve Division in Sicily at the time of the Allied landings there. Called the Beach Jumpers, also known as the "BJ factor".
Oo84 TIL that in the 1920s, a Japanese professor used to walk home with his dog from the train station every evening. When the professor died unexpectedly, the dog waited without fail each day at arrival time at the station for nine years until his own death.
gr7o7 Today I learned half of Canton, MA got bleach balooned
pY7ep TIL In 1897, the US Government created "The Board of Tea Experts" to taste test every lot of imported tea, to ensure that the tea tasted good. The Board was abolished in 1996.