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TIL about Operation Gunnerside; Just when the fuses were about to be lit, the caretaker of the heavy-water electrolysis chambers asked the saboteurs if they could help him find his glasses. The saboteurs obliged. They found his glasses, blew up the chambers and the saboteurs all got out alive.

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4BY6 TIL that Bernie Tiede was released from his life sentence in prison in May on the condition that he stay in Austin, TX and live with the filmmaker of ‘Bernie’.
oBM5E TIL U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent American combat troops to Russia during the Russian Revolution to protect arms meant for the newly-collapsed Eastern Front, as well as to rescue 56,000 Czech soldiers allied with the Triple Entente who became stranded along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
aworM TIL about the Battle of Jumonville Glen, in which a young George Washington ambushed a French Canadian outpost. This became the opening battle of the French and Indian War.
nWkl9 TIL about the Abode of Chaos. Artist Thierry Ehrmann bought an old scenic house in a rural town and transformed it into a replica war zone that serves as an open-air museum of radical avant-garde art. This has angered locals enough to sue him in France's supreme court.
9Yaep TIL that in the United States Robertson screws are not widely used. Apparently Henry Ford couldn’t make an exclusive deal with Robertson, instead made one with Phillips, and the rest is history. Phillips are still the most popular screw heads in the US despite their inferior design.