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TIL that during wwII, the german forces built fake airfields with fake wooden planes in it. The allied forces waited until they finished them, then sent out air raids in which they dropped wooden bombs on them.

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mZvP TIL that organized “wife swapping” was started in the 1940s on U.S. Air Force bases by fighter pilots and their wives. Researchers found it was “a kind of tribal bonding ritual, with a tacit understanding that the two thirds of husbands who survived would look after the widows.”
5YPwD TIL a Soldier by the Name of Peter Lemon, won the Medal of Honor when he single handedly fought of 2 waves of the Vietcong while he was HIGH on Marijuana
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QJyep TIL an AI named Cyc became confused by a story of a man shaving. The AI understood that people do not contain any electronic parts, but considered the man holding the electric razor as one entity, and asked if he was still a person while he was shaving.