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TIL during WWII the Royal Marines used a body with fake orders to trick the Axis Powers into believing the Allies were invading Greece

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e0pBb TIL the CIA planned to kick the British off of the Falklands, send them to Scotland, and give the islands to Argentina.
16OyP TIL about Carotenosis, a harmless condition often mistaken for jaundice, which is caused by the prolonged consumption of carrots (and other carotene-rich foods)
KZyB TIL The largest ransom ever paid to a single individual was to the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, by the Inca Empire before their leader, Atahualpa, the victim, was executed in 1532. The ransom payment of a “roomful of gold” was probably over $2 billion in today’s economic markets.
pjL4 TIL that no U.S Navy submarine is ever considered “lost” if it does not return, it is considered to be “still on patrol”
VjGm TIL that in 1856 a school master strangled a student for stepping on his tame parrot. Afterwards the boy’s father went to the school and shot the schoolmaster dead.