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TIL that the production of The Sound of Music faced opposition from Salzburg city leaders who did not want them staging scenes with swastika banners. However, they relented after director Robert Wise threatened instead to include old newsreel footage featuring the banners.

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JeAV TIL of Inky .. the Octopus that escaped from it’s tank in a New Zealand Aquarium, slid across the floor and into a 50 m drainpipe leading back to the ocean ..
e0Dn5 TIL John Babbacombe Lee was imprisoned (with weak evidence) for the murder of his employer in 1884 and was set to hang on February 21st, 1885. Though being carefully tested, the trapdoor of the gallows malfunctioned three times, resulting in John's freedom due to, "suspected divine intervention."
9w4wM Today I learned about the nutty putty cave incident's horror, where a 26 year old father went for an explore and took a wrong turn. After the wrong turn John Jones headed to a dead end and stuck upside down.
rRQMo TIL that when practicing for the D-Day landings in "Exercise Tiger" at least 749 Americans were killed by friendly fire and a "wolf pack" of 6 German E-boats who stumbled on the LST ships in the dark. D-Day was nearly called off because 10 officers who knew the exact plans went missing.
mZ6x TIL that a female psychoanalyst from from 1940s coined the terms “womb-envy” and “vagina envy” in response to the idea of “penis envy” to describe man’s need to dominate women because of jealousy for what they cannot do biologically.