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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.

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R71Ga TIL that tin has ten natural isotopes, the most of any element
9j0r TIL that Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in 1971’s Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie again, and later on became a veterinarian
e0GLJ TIL the only creature that kills more humans than humans do is the mosquito
Kja4 TIL Humans can breathe liquid and its used in drug delivery and proposed for deep sea and space applications.
R5lKQ TIL that for centuries, numerous African populations were purported to be illiterate by European academics. In fact, they'd been using Ajami for literature and communication. Ajami adapts the Arabic script for many African languages, like Roman script is used for European ones...