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TIL Operation Frantic saw U.S. bombers landing in Soviet Ukraine in mid‑1944 for shuttle raids—but a devastating German strike and Soviet distrust doomed the effort.

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X0GLr TIL despite being marketed as the main character, Drew Barrymore was killed off in the first scene of scream
J874 TIL the mantis shrimp strikes a blow at the speed of a bullet, which also produces cavitation bubbles (similar to boiling) in the water. The prey is thus struck twice - once by the blow itself, and a second time when the bubbles collapse. The blow is powerful enough to break aquarium glass as well.
VB08m TIL that the last Great Auk egg ever was accidentally cracked in the struggle to strangle its parents
19kd TIL Thomas Kincaid, who described himself as a born again Christian and painter of a “morally superior art,” pissed in public on a Winnie the Pooh figure at the Disneyland Hotel while saying, “This one’s for you, Walt.” He died from overdosing on alcohol and valium in 2012.
R5kej TIL: By some estimates, Al Capone had been directly or indirectly responsible for over 200 murders, the most notorious of which was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in February 1929. But ultimately, law enforcement charged him with 22 counts of tax evasion, and convicted him on 5 counts.