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TIL of Exercise Tiger, the training for D-day that ended with 946 American Deaths when 9 German E-boats showed up during the rehearsal and attacked.

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VM8BG TIL The US convened a Coin Task Force to address a shortage in coinage. They determined there isn’t a shortage per se, instead too much of the $48.5 billion in US are not in circulation.
grE4y TIL that how ‘Lubrication' provided by tiny air bubbles released from under the feathers could allow penguins to gain enough speed to leap out of the water and onto the ice shelf And scientists are mimicking this robots.
DQ4rg TIL Japanese Yakuza used to implant glass “pearls” in their penis for every year they served in prison.
Yp4gW TIL Nobel Prize nominees aren't released until 50 years after the award is won
ANGBa TIL In 1954, the CIA ordered Carcano rifle ammo for anti-communist forces. The leftover ammo and rifles were re-imported and sold wholesale to the public, including to Lee Harvey Oswald, who used them to assassinate JFK.