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TIL All 32,000 games in original Windows Freecell are solvable except one, #11982

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GAVL1 Today I learned that the name Operation Bagration was given by Stalin to honor the name of Pyotr Bagration, who was heavily wounded in the Battle of Borodino. Bagration died after a couple of weeks and he was a Georgian as Stalin.
1aKKP TIL: The first person to set foot on the North Pole was an African-American man named Matthew Henson.
Y6nG TIL the Italian verb asolare means to pass time in a meaningless but delightful way