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TIL about Motte and Bailey Fallacy, where the arguer advances the controversial position, but when challenged, they insist that they are only advancing the more modest position.

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ba59 TIL of the D-Day(June 6) Crossword Panic of 1944 in which, in the 35 days before the invasion, 5 obscure, top-secret code words appeared in the Daily Telegraph puzzles..The words ‘Utah, Omaha, Overlord, Mulberry and Neptune’ triggered a MI5 investigation.
9wZgX TIL that at the center of our local cluster is an unknown gravitational anomaly called the Great Attractor, millions of times more massive than our galaxy, that is inconveniently obscured by the galactic plane of the Milky Way.
5jOD TIL The Energizer Bunny is only in America because Duracell failed to renew their US trademark for a battery bunny. Elsewhere in the world Duracell advertises with a bunny.
rNdQy TIL the Cold War was partially prompted by an event in Ottawa when a Soviet cipher clerk working at the Soviet embassy to Canada defected & exposed the Soviet spy network in Canada, leading to allied countries discovering Soviet spies & informants within their own governments
M7KA0 TIL Quebec generates 1/3rd of all Canada's electricity, and 99% comes from renewable sources.