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TIL how British Cmdr Terence Otway, wanting to be sure his men wouldn’t leak the D-Day plans, tested them by sending 30 pretty members of the Women’s Aux. Air Force in civilian clothes to the local pubs with instructions to do all they could try and get the info, but none of the men fell for it.

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nn6o TIL the United States Government, with the passage of the NDAA fiscal year 2013, overturned a 64 year ban on domestic propaganda usage. This action now allows the U.S. State Department to distribute and broadcast government propaganda to U.S. citizens.
DQNQV TIL Johny Depp began developing a Dr. Seuss film biopic in 2011 but the project stalled. In 2018, Stephen Chbosky became director for a film about young Seuss' life as a struggling writer in the 1920s prior to meeting his future wife Helen Palmer
GyRG TIL - There has only ever been one successful shoot-down of a F-117A stealth plane, in 1999 during the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia, the Pilot ejected safely. Since then the US pilot and Serb that shot him down have become good friends.
VMLWZ TIL that a public beach at California's Pt. Reyes Natl. Seashore was closed after the 2018 US govt shutdown. However, it was not reopened after the shutdown ended; over the month with no human activity, a breeding colony of elephant seals had invaded the beach, picnic area, and even its parking lot.
Vmbm TIL the Soviets were trying to collect rock samples from the Moon with a probe at the exact same time the Appolo 11 mission was taking place in 1969. While Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were walking on the Moon, their probe malfunctioned and crashed into the surface miles away from them.