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TIL In WW2, US codebreakers could not decipher the Japanese code “AF” but suspected it was Midway, so the base there sent an uncoded message about a water supply problem. The US then caught a Japanese message that AF had water problems, allowing the US pacific fleet to immediately prepare for battle

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d8EV9 TIL when Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his father was thrown into prison for debt. Charles was forced to leave school and work ten-hour days at a boot factory in order to help support his family. The poor conditions of the working class became a major theme in several of his works.
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0aOj TIL that a 61 Year Old Farmer, Cliff Young won a Sydney-to-Melbourne (875 kilometers) endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.