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TIL the Brittish army hired a magician during WWII to fool the Afrika Corps. It worked.

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M5wB TIL that in 2011 duckduckgo placed a giant billboard in google’s hometown that said: “google tracks you. We don’t.”
grOX8 TIL nearly 60 senators were part of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, but he was stabbed 23 times, with only 1 wound being fatal. Caesar ultimately died at the base of the statue of his former rival, Pompey the Great.
DY9g TIL The Sahara is expected to become green again in about 15000 years (about 17000 AD)
d897j TIL Ballooning is a process by which spiderlings and even some species of adult spiders move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads from their spinnerets to catch the wind becoming airborne sometimes for long distances and great heights at the mercy of air and electric currents.
xVBAb TIL that in 1946, George Kennan, then USA's deputy head of mission in Moscow, sent a 8000 worded "Long Telegram", which became the basis of US approach towards USSR is the Cold War. He warned US of Kremlin's expansionist dreams, which, if unchecked, would shatter the principals on which US stands.