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TIL about the US WWII unit known as the “Ghost Army,” a tactical deception unit made of ~1000 soldiers. They used visual, sonic, and radio deception to fool German forces into thinking they had 30,000 soldiers with them.

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16Q7W TIL Haugh units (HU) are used to measure the freshness of eggs!!
d85aQ TIL Lungs are not symmetrical. Your right lung has three lobes and the left has two.
xvY5 TIL of an episode of Goosebumps called “Click”, which preceded the movie and has an identical plot.
5YaND TIL Zanjeer aka Ginger was a Sniffer dog who helped detect over 3329 kg of RDX explosives, 249 grenades and live ammunition during the 1993 Mumbai Blasts and thus helped save thousands of lives. Poor boy died of Bone cancer at the age of 8 and was buried with full state honours.
epODJ TIL in the Karajá language, only women generally pronounce the sound /k/. With time, the extensive weakening of the /k/ sound became associated with masculinity while its preservation was seen as a sign of femininity. This is an example of a socially motivated phonological rule.