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TIL Of the 1,213 warships involved in D-Day, only 200 were American and 892 were British; of the 4,126 landing craft involved, 805 were American and 3,261 were British

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KW9w TIL in 1958, then Vice President Nixon unknowingly smuggled 3 lbs. of marijuana through U.S. Customs for Louis Armstrong.
0wMLp TIL guitarist Ronnie Wood has had a plastic septum inserted in 1975, because he destroyed the natural one with cocaine use.
0wZ1j TIL of Ines Ramirez, who was forty years old, far from medical assistance and struggling during a difficult birth. She cut into her own abdomen with a kitchen knife and delivered her son, becoming the only person to have performed a Caesarean section on herself.
nD4d TIL that YouTube had to update their view count from 32-bit to 64-bit solely because Gangnam Style had too many views.