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TIL despite likely occurring multiple times a day across all oceans, the definitive causes behind rogue waves largely remain a mystery

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R1P8 TIL that Werner Heisenberg worked to develop an Atomic Bomb for Nazi Germany.Claiming that he deliberately attempted to misguide German efforts, transcripts of secret recordings after the war revealed however that it was actually ignorant of what was required to succeed.
DQLwr TIL 145 Polish pilots, representing some five percent of Fighter Command’s overall strength, claimed 203 German aircraft for the loss of 29 of their number killed in the Battle of Britain. This amounts to 15 percent of the Command’s total score
woNQ8 TIL the Powerpuff Girls was originally called "Whoopass Stew"
jVNj TIL That Cleveland Brown will be returning to Quahog with his new family after the cancellation of ‘The Cleveland Show’
oB1r8 TIL: The grass at Wimbledon was kept two inches long until 1949 when an English tennis player was bitten by a snake.