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TIL Nazis Planned to Assassinate Winston Churchill with an Exploding Chocolate Bar but the plot was uncovered by british spies

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7kxP TIL for those of you that buy glasses online, yet your optometrist refuses to give you your PD (Pupilary Distance), there is a federal law that says that they must give that information to you
pYddA TIL Time did not originally name a "Man of the Year" in 1941; Dumbo the elephant, whose film was released that year, was supposed to be "Mammal of the Year". Then Pearl Harbor happened and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was quickly anointed "Man of the Year" (for a record third time).
aZJJ TIL that Stephen Hawking’s fear of aliens comes from the possibility of aliens enslaving us based on the reality that we’ve done that to our selves in the past when a more technologically advanced civilization encountered a less technologically advanced civilization.
DPxr TIL that liquid breathing (such as in the movie abyss) is true and can be used when diving or as a type of medical treatment
8e7a8 TIL Sophocles wrote over 120 plays but only 7 survive fully