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TIL In 1944, a crossword writer for The Daily Telegraph caused alarm at MI-5 by accidentally publishing information on the impending D-Day landings. "Utah", "Omaha", "Overlord" and other codewords all appeared in his work a month before the invasion. It turned out to be entirely harmless chance.

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QQ5p TIL during a battle in 603 BC Chinese warrior Xiong Yiliao stepped out between the armies and started juggling 9 balls. The opposing troops were so amazed that all 500 of them turned and fled.
xVGA5 TIL that Prague is well known for its defenestrations, in which someone or a group of people are thrown out of a window. These defenestrations have historically been responsible for both wars and peace within the nation, as well as the deaths of prominent figures.
kJ8r4 TIL Venmurasu is the world's longest novel, spanning 26,000 pages. An Indian writer completed it in just six years. It is a modern retelling of the Indian classical epic Mahabharata, with some minor details expanded into standalone stories the length of a typical novel.
pbje TIL To prove that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria, Barry Marshall drank broth filled with infectious bacteria, got ulcers, then cured himself with antibiotics. He won a Nobel Prize.
969X TIL Box jellyfish anatomy includes 24 eyes and have the closest thing to a brain of any of the jellyfish species.