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TIL that thousands of Canadian forces dressed as Nazis and “invaded” the City of Winnipeg on Feb. 19, 1942, to scare people into buying more Victory loans

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DQElg TIL that when French forces led by King Francis I attacked Arles in southern France in 1536, the word "grenade" was first used. Firepots, kegs, jars, and glass globes were used to make the first grenades. The Germans quickly began using two grenade variants (stick and egg).
yV7Zw TIL you are supposed to use a new section of floss for each tooth (not one string of floss for the entire mouth)
epnJJ TIL Using programming to model entire wind farms and account for the wake of individual turbines increases energy production over all.
eppVk TIL of the format called MovieCD (not to be confused with VideoCD or CD-Video) which was a way for full-length videos to be played on 16-Bit Windows PCs that couldn’t handle the MPEG codec.
b60Z7 TIL U-570 was a WW2 German U-boat that achieved the unusual distinction of surrendering to an aircraft when a British Hudson Bomber struck her with depth charges in 1941. She was then commissioned into the Royal Navy as the HMS Graph until being decommissioned and wrecked off Scotland in 1944.