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TIL that British engineers laid a fuel pipeline under the English channel in a single night, under cover of darkness, to supply the Allied forces in Normandy.

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Gn6J TIL that Jake Lloyd (Young Anakin Skywalker) retired from acting, destroyed all of his Star Wars memorabilia, and refuses to watch any of the movies because he finds them too “creepy”.
8W4P TIL Stanley Kubrick hated to travel so much he filmed Full Metal Jacket in England. He had the palm trees flown in for the battle scene.
W7XYN TIL that scientists use measurements collected by seals swimming under the sea ice with temporary satellite tags to study polynya (an area of unfrozen sea water surrounded by ice)
bJ40 TIL that Madagascar actually accounts for the most plague deaths in the world.
e0J54 TIL about the Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission was a joint operation by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and the Indian Intelligence Bureau that resulted in a nuclear device getting lost in the Himalayas. It was never found.