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TIL of Exercise Tiger, a preparation exercise resulting in more casualties than the actual Utah landing at Normandy months later. A terrible disaster, a complete information blackout was ordered

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4gGR TIL that Gordon Ramsay challenged James May from Top Gear to eat three delicacies as a “test of a man.” The third delicacy was rotten shark, which Ramsay spat out, while May finished and responded, “You disappoint me, Ramsay.”
v1dRr TIL a drug company tried to avoid legal challenges to one of its patents by transferring its patent rights to a Native American tribe (and exclusively licensing them back) so they could claim sovereign immunity against any patent lawsuits. It didn't work.
N7Kg6 TIL Robert Frost couldn't read the poem he wrote for John F. Kennedy's inauguration due to the glare on the snow being too strong. So he instead recited one he knew from memory.
jNmQa TIL: England had a huge array of crimes punishable by the death penalty, with some odd ones in there like "being in the company of Gypsies for one month"
NXQPE TIL that the UK ran a fake German radio station in WW2. The announcer of "Gustav Siegfried Eins" was "Der Chef", supposedly a patriotic traditional German officer who denounced corrupt Nazi officials. When "Der Chef" was killed by the Gestapo, the station accidentally broadcast his death twice.