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TIL Operation Himmler was a series of false flag operations executed by Nazi Germany to give the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany.

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7BdO TIL that octopuses are very intelligent, and that in 1875 an octopus at the Brighton Aquarium would escape its tank when the guards weren’t around, eat the lump fish in another tank, then go back to its own tank before the aquarium opened
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