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TIL that Bob Dylan plays Jimi Hendrix’ version of “All Along the Watchtower” instead of his own.

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YbaA TIL More than 55% of the Dutch people live outside of the Netherlands.
rNBL1 TIL success of June 6th D-Day 80 years ago, was the result of year-long elaborate deception of disinformation, decoy, and dummies. That included rubber tanks, inflatable trucks, canvas fleet, & parachuting dummy dolls. Also a phantom army, a fictitious network of spies, & fake radio traffic.
pWVA TIL Yukon Cornelius constantly licked his pick because in the original version of “Rudolph” he was searching for peppermint, not silver and gold.
R77V9 TIL "Kamikaze pilots only had enough fuel for one-way missions" is actually a myth.
pNaQ TIL that when the Nazis closed down the Polish universities and executed professors, surviving academics set up illegal ‘underground universities.’ One of those educated by an underground university was future Pope John Paul II