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TIL That the Normandy landings were only made possible by a disinformation campaign designed by the allied troops with the aim of misleading the German High Command as to the location of the invasion.

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v1Vo7 TIL that any Canadian citizen, who has lived in the Yukon for at least one year, can get free land from the government, provided they are willing to farm it.
ElR7 TIL there are fewer than 33,000 Venus flytraps living in the wild, and they’re all in North Carolina.
kODBB TIL: for April fools Day 1957 the BBC programme panorama made a hoax video exploring the bountiful 'Spaghetti Harvest' that year
PYQoL TIL when California two-spot octopuses (a specific species) were submerged in an ecstasy solution, they got calmer and more sociable with other octopuses they previously ignored. While this showed they react similarly to humans on MDMA, this was a pilot experiment that needs further research.
D1kPV TIL about the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific, the century-old Dragon's Triangle (or the Devil's Sea). It is located near Japan and known for similar "paranormal" properties and unexplained instances of disappearing ships.