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TIL that one of the ingredients of Worcestershire Sauce is anchovies.

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ZgQR TIL the first four canadian soldiers who lost their life in Afghanistan was due to a American F18 dropping a bomb on a training exercise in the belief that the Canadians were enemy soldiers.
ZpvRB TIL John F Kennedy was a WW2 war hero. In 1943 the torpedo bost he was in command of was struck by a Japanese destroyer. When the boat sank, Kennedy swam a critically injured crew member 3.5 miles to shore. They were rescued by writing a message on a coconut husk.
9QmX TIL - Before D-Day, the Daily Telegraph featured crossword puzzles which coincidentally had the same words as the codenames for the Normandy landings, leading to an arrest and interrogation.
xmB TIL with key Greek city-states in submission, Philip II of Macedon turned his attention to Sparta and sent a message: “If I win this war, you will be slaves forever.” The Spartans replied with one word: “if”
N7JWP TIL that a government funded Minecraft Replica of Denmark, intended for educational purposes, was bombed several times by American hackers using smuggled in game dynamite, after which they planted several US flags on detonation sites.