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TIL about Operation Tiger, a training exercise that was supposed to prepare U.S. troops for the D-Day invasion of Normandy and resulted in the deaths of 946 American servicemen.

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WWld TIL Matt White, former promising minor league baseball pitcher, bought 50 acres of land from his aunt for $50k so she could go into a nursing home. The land ended up being solid Goshen stone, and estimated to be worth about $2.5 billion
0QLy TIL the longest recorded field goals in college football (69 yards) and high school football (68 yards) are each longer than the NFL’s professional record (64 yards).
AkOg TIL that during World War II, over 1,000 American airmen were shot down behind enemy lines and rescued by Yugoslavian Partisans and Serbian Chetniks.
aPWM TIL that an ‘I am Rich’ iPhone App was made which cost $999.99. The App displayed a glowing red gem on a user’s iPhone screen for the sole purpose of proving to onlookers that one is of the moneyed class. It was removed later, but not before eight people bought it.
m1lPy TIL when Théodore Géricault was painting “The Raft of the Medusa,” he met with survivors of the disaster, built a replica raft, and purchased multiple human limbs and a severed head which he took back to his studio in order to accurately portray the colour and texture of decaying flesh. [NSFW]