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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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N8OJ TIL Transmutation (turning one substance into another by chemical reaction, like in alchemy) is real. You can turn lead into gold with enough nuclear chemistry. But it would be a very tiny amount of gold and spent more money to make it than what it’s worth.
KOymE TIL Sylvester Stallone is still pals with turtles from original ‘Rocky’ They're 44 years old.
Yr4v TIL That beekeeping in Ukraine is a major economic activity. 700,000 people, 1.5% of the Ukrainian population, are engaged in producing honey.
Oo9K6 TIL a slave was indicted for waging war against the state and was later sentenced to be hanged for treason. Two dissenting judges argued that a slave, being a noncitizen, could not commit treason. He was later pardoned.
xVGG7 TIL after WWII ended, Jewish people were forced to live for months in their concentration camps, in their camp uniforms and poorly insulated buildings, leading a US representative to conclude: "We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them."