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TIL sea otters were extinct in Washington State between 1910 and 1965. The current population originally came from Alaska and they were evacuated from areas where the US was testing nuclear bombs between 1965 and 1972

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XrMj TIL the Allied operation to conceal the D-Day Invasion involved fake radio traffic, double agents, an Australian actor, and fake invasion plans for Calais, Norway, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans. It was so effective Hitler believed the real invasion hadn’t begun until seven weeks after D-Day.
N7Vdb TIL after WW2 the US government could not account for 7 German prisoners of war. The last of them, Georg Gärtner, surrendered himself on The Today Show in 1985
9wYJB TIL that the character Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye was originally envisaged as an older, mentor figure for James Bond. After Anthony Hopkins and Alan Rickman turned down the role, Sean Bean was cast and the character was rewritten to be Bond's peer.
l7jG5 TIL the B-52D Stratofortress is the largest aircraft in history to score an air-to-air kill. Two North Vietnamese MiG-21s were shot down by B-52 tail gunners during Operation Linebacker II in December 1972.
rmvW TIL that a HD Cable/DVR box uses more power than a refrigerator.