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TIL the D in 'D-Day' stands for Day.

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b9d14 TIL of Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat who during WW2 warned Danish Jews of their impending deportation and organised their rescue to Sweden, resulting in 95% of Jewish Danes fleeing successfully.
nM59 TIL “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” was named so because studio executives feared that audiences wouldn’t want to see the word Charlie in the title, since American soldiers in Vietnam often used “Charlie” to refer to the Viet Cong.
YpN5P TIL Babe Ruth was the guest of honor at a Harlem fundraiser for the benefit of a local African-American church. Other white celebrities had similarly committed to attend, but only Babe kept his word. He contributed some autographed balls along with twenty bucks out of his pocket
boeQ TIL that Gladys O'Connor, the crazy tour guide from Billy Madison, just missed out on being on the Titanic and lived to be 108 years old
4kx0w TIL that the word Lunatic was created because it was believed that the moon caused people to behave mad.