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TIL British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler’s plans by studying his horoscope.

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KwNa TIL there is a sandwich shop called the ‘Earl of Sandwich’ founded by the current Earl of Sandwich, and descendent of the inventor of the sandwich. Sandwich.
4PXb TIL Winston Churchill once defined tact as “the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such as way that they look forward to the trip.”
DQELP TIL that there is a type of cloud called "Morning Glory clouds" that can create rolling waves in the sky, stretching for thousands of kilometers! These rare clouds appear as a rolling tube of cloud that can move at speeds of up to 60 km/h, and can even create mini-tornadoes!
XERgR TIL the entire set of The Mandalorian was digitally rendered using Unreal Engine 4 - in real time
l7jAK TIL that Ford Motors released Edsel in the late 1950s. The model was marketed as futuristic and even its release date was dubbed “E Day”. Edsel catastrophically failed, cost Ford over $2.5 billion in 2023 dollars, and quietly shut down 3 years after its release.