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GY7GG TIL, that in 1917, British forces were not ready for a head on assault of Jerusalem, so British intelligence created a plan where cigarettes would be air dropped by recon planes for the Ottomans everyday up until the day of the assault, where they instead dosed all the cigarettes with opium.
WM08 TIL the boy who voiced Bambi grew up to become the youngest drill instructor in Marines history
1aEL4 TIL George Orwell's manuscript of "Animal Farm" was almost destroyed when a German bomb hit his London home OTD in 1944. He spent hours sifting through the rubble to find the pages intact.
e0RBk TIL that the Louvre (Paris) is so big it would actually take me 100 days to see each piece of art of the museum, spending 30 seconds in front of each piece and being in the museum 24/7.
QJL6M TIL The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time for the Nintendo 64 is the only game to ever get a 99 rating on Metacritic making it the best rated game of all time