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TIL that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth was 1 part of a wider conspiracy to also assassinate the Vice President and Secretary of State the same night in order to create chaos in the government after the Civil War. Only Booth was successful however.

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xlrg TIL during WWII, British forces dressed a dead hobo in a general’s uniform and planted “top secret documents” on his body, detailing a fictional invasion through Greece. They then caused the body to wash up on an Italian beach, in an attempt to mislead German high command. It worked.
KYGo6 TIL King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia created a military regiment of taller-than-average men. He scoured the country for men to fill the ranks of his "Potsdam Giants." Nations sent him tall soldiers to secure good relations. He even tried to pair them with tall women to breed a race of giants!