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

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PYaWw TIL that Surveyors have found that the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster( BIG BEN ) has developed a tilt. Experts says even though the tilt is visible to the naked eye, at its current speed, it would take some 4,000 years to reach the angle of the Leaning Tower of PISA.
e4o6 TIL scientists have identified an asteroid in our solar system, 16 Psyche, which has enough iron to fuel planetary consumption for millions of years. The Earth may have as little as a century of mineable iron left, in contrast.
0d7R TIL - Male mice sing an Ultrasonic “love ballads” as a means try and court female mice.
69VX8 TIL about "Hedonometer," a tool that measures happiness levels in different regions by analyzing tweets.
R7o6l TIL the man who tried to kidnap Britain's Princess Anne in 1974 is still locked away in a psychiatric hospital "At Her Majesty's pleasure" 45 years later.