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TIL the “D” in D-Day stands for nothing. In military terms D-Day is used for date and H-Hour is used for time the attack or combat operations are to be initiated.

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Mel4m TIL after recording the first "2000-Year-Old Man" record, Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner weren't sure people would like it. Then Cary Grant played it for the Queen of England, who loved it. Brooks said, "Well if the biggest shiksa in the world loves it, we're home free." The record launched their careers.
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w4BM TIL of The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970.
J1vYl TIL that every even number is the sum of two primes, according to the Goldbach Conjecture, which has been verified up to 19 digits