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TIL of James Martin Stagg, a meteorologist for the allies in WW2 tasked with finding the day with the right conditions for the D-Day invasion. His team and him predicted that the weather would clear up on June 6th, which the Germans didn’t predict. He was right and D-Day was successful.

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