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TIL of Project COLDFEET, a 1962 operation where two CIA operatives were airdropped onto an abandoned Soviet research station on an ice floe, retrieved information on advanced submarine detection systems, and were extracted via the Fulton Skyhook recovery system to a modified B-17.

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gygL TIL of Helmuth Hübener, the youngest opponent of the Nazis to be sentenced to death. Upon receiving his sentence, he told the judges “Now I must die, even though I have committed no crime. So now it’s my turn, but your turn will come.”
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6OVY TIL that a British military hospital during WW1 was staffed entirely by women. Endell Street Military Hospital in London had only female doctors, nurses, orderlies, and clerks, all of whom supported the movement to give women the vote.