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TIL about the Ni'ihau incident, where a Japanese pilot landed after the Pearl Harbor attack and tried to fight on

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l76kr TIL green bell peppers were just red/yellow/orange peppers but in their unripe form
LkjL0 TIL about British general J.F.C. Fuller, whose theories influenced the Nazi's adoption of the blitzkrieg. In 1939, Hitler staged a parade of his mechanized army and asked Fuller "What do you think of your children?"
J1Rlj TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA launched operation codenamed 'Aedinosaur' during which they sent thousands of balloons carrying copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm into Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
7WOP TIL that after leaving office, Lyndon Johnson’s Oval Office desk was taken to his museum, and once in a while, he would sit at the desk to “surprise unsuspecting museum visitors.”
xGb0 TIL in a survey executed by Harris Interactive, 40% of Americans believed the statement “Dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans” to be true, while another 13% were not sure about it