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TIL that when the Viking leaders asked King Harold Godwinson what land they would get, they were told they would receive “seven feet of English ground”, enough to bury them in.

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Oo7j7 TIL that Hitler himself disliked the blackletter typeface that many Nazi organizations still use today. The typographical dispute between the Fraktur typeface and the more legible typeface Antiqua came to an end in 1941 Nazi Germany with an edict from Martin Bormann, which forbade blackletter.
DQ78P TIL: George Lucas added 3 new shots to The Empire Strikes Back in the weeks between the 70mm Release (~100 Screens) in May 1980 and the wider 35mm Release in June 1980. He felt the final scenes were geographically confusing and wanted to clarify them with establishing shots of the ships.
9m6p TIL that the US Air Force is the only branch of US military to ever directly fight the USSR. The conflict occurred over the Serbian town of Niš during WWII. Both sides mistook each other as Germans and both sides classified all reports of the battle as Top Secret.
VQmD TIL that pants were likely invented to make horseback riding more comfortable.
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.