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TIL that, thanks to a communication failure, a lot more US soldiers died during the preparation excersize for the “Utah Beach” Normandy invasion than the actual invasion itself.

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grMx7 TIL in Jekyll Island Georgia, if you own a home you don't own the land.
YPQB TIL Lt James Launders is the only submarine commander in history to have engaged and destroyed an enemy submarine during time of war using only his own un-aided vessel while both ships were fully submerged
yQm8v TIL that the movie What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) was produced by Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Ramtha is an alleged entity channelled by J.Z. Knight said to be over 35,000 years old and from Atlantis and Lemuria, where he was in charge of an army of over a million people.
jDxp TIL of Antihydrogen, a material valued at 90 trillion dollars per gram, making it the most expensive material in the world.
rQed TIL Ulrich von Liechtenstein was a real man, and his autobiography depicts him as an undefeated jouster, competing for the hand of a noblewoman who demanded great deeds to even hold her hand.