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TIL: The mission to kill Osama bin Laden was called Operation Neptune's Spear in honour of the SEAL trident, which is Neptune's Spear.

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P1Zpn TIL when Anthony Quinn was filming The Guns of Navarone he was so taken by the location shooting of Rhodes, an island in Greece, that he bought property there and there is an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay.
N75YM TIL about Wonderland. A Boeing bomber facotory from WWII on the West coast that built a fake residential town on its roof to camouflage it from potential ememy airstrikes
1a71D TIL when you love getting attention and hate it at the same time is called Hedgehog's dilemma
9wVN6 TIL about the Levon Affair, a false flag operation in Egypt committed by Israeli intelligence. The bombings were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood. Incriminating evidence was found in the apartment of one of the agents whose bomb prematurely ignited.
epEdn TIL Redheads in Australia are often nicknamed "Blueys".