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TIL that wednesday, thursday, and friday spell out "WTF" crazy

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Wkw1N TIL that Six Flags Amusement Park is named that way because of the 6 different flags that have governed over the state of Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America. The first Six Flags park was Six Flags Over Texas.
GYY71 TIL of Operation Credible Sport where a C130 propeller aircraft was equipped with rocket boosters to evacuate hostages in a soccer stadium without a runway.
pYnlN TIL that carriers of Phenylketonuria, an inherited genetic disorder of the metabolism, are protected against the fungal toxin Ochratoxin A that occurs in grains. This accounts for the persistence of the allele in certain populations: it confers a "selective advantage."
ZpKxQ TIL David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the UK during WW1, didn't support appeasement because he disliked Neville Chamberlain
ba59 TIL of the D-Day(June 6) Crossword Panic of 1944 in which, in the 35 days before the invasion, 5 obscure, top-secret code words appeared in the Daily Telegraph puzzles..The words ‘Utah, Omaha, Overlord, Mulberry and Neptune’ triggered a MI5 investigation.