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TIL That the Allies secretly built two entire portable harbors in the UK and towed them across the English Channel right after D-Day to attach to the just-captured beachheads. One was damaged in a storm. The other landed over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies.

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5VaP TIL that in 1893 H.H.Holmes (one of the first documented American serial killers) built a maze like hotel with full of traps where he murdered his victims
6EGbw TIL in 1986, the store chain Silo advertised a stereo as costing “299 bananas”, with “bananas” being a slang word for “dollars”. However, 32 people legally bought the stereos with 299 banana fruits.
XRm6 TIL that there are 600-700 men in the world with two penises.
xNQ7 TIL An Australian man - Don Ritchie lived across the street from the most famous suicide spot in Australia known as “the gap.” He lived there for 45 years and during that time he saved at least 160 people from committing suicide.
owGK TIL Batman beat the Hulk in a special cross-over by throwing a can of knock-out-gas at the Hulk’s head, then hitting him in the solar plexus which caused him to breathe in the gas.