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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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WkWGB TIL aid expert David Rieff argues that Live Aid donations helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,000. Ethiopia remains one of Africa's poorest countries, and the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is worse off today than it was after Live Aid.
9YALB TIL the voice actors of Mickey and Minnie Mouse were married in real life
e0KKD TIL that there is a beer named after the Austrian village of Fucking. It is named Fucking Hell and was originally denied a trademark.
9wJvG TIL Johnny Depp was the first person to hear Glass Animals' #1 Billboard hit "Heat Waves". Lead singer Dave Bayley was writing it late at night in a London studio when Depp, working in another studio, snuck into the room while searching for the restroom and listened to the entire unreleased track.
b9kbj TIL Donn Tatum was the first non-Disney family member to be president of Walt Disney Productions, following the death of Roy Disney in 1971. He played a major role in the creation of Walt Disney World Resort, EPCOT Center and Tokyo Disneyland