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TIL British bombers bombed wooden German decoy airplanes 1944. With wooden decoy bombs.

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Y7aNP TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket)
ANLK4 TIL the sensitivity of a computer mouse is measured in "mickeys-per-inch".
kOxE4 TIL in 1953 four editors from the Harvard Crimson newspaper stole a birdsh*t covered ibis statue from their rival- the Harvard Lampoon. The editors talked their way into a meeting with the Soviet Ambassador, and gifted the ibis to the USSR as ‘symbol of the universality of the search for truth'
x6aA1 TIL most audio recordings contain a background "mains hum" from electric power grid oscillations that can be matched with grid readings to date the clip to the second it was recorded.
475b TIL the South Pacific island of Vanuatu banned the imports of western junk food as a way to combat future health problems.