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TIL that Operation Crossbow was a WWII Allied campaign to locate and destroy Nazi V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket sites, diverting huge bombing resources away from other strategic targets.

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GYdd5 TIL that Stan Lee, the co-creator of comic book characters including Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Daredevil and the X-Men which have populated a film series that has grossed more than $11bn worldwide, was a victim of elder abuse by his business manager Keya Morgan.
R51v9 TIL that in 1986, a sudden degassing of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released 1.6 million tons of Carbon Dioxide and killed 1,746 people and 3000 livestock from various villages within 16 miles of the lake
R5bAQ TIL that in 1945, the US Navy converted a former concrete production barge into a floating ice cream factory. It was towed around the Pacific to provide ice cream to Allied troops, and could produce 10 gallons of ice cream every 7 minutes.
neY5G TIL: A major contributor to the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was an insane murderer who made submissions for several years before the editor attempted to visit him finding he lived in an asylum.
jNroM TIL that When a Nebraska church exploded in 1950, no one was injured because every single member of the choir was coincidentally late in arriving for practice that evening