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TIL of the "D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm", where codenames related to the Operation Overlord plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the British newspaper.

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9YAE7 TIL that the Soviet gold medalist Elena Mukhina was forced back to practice with an unhealed broken leg, which didn't give her enough power to do a flip and broke her neck on the mat making her quadriplegic for life in 1980. After the accident she said "Thank God I don't have to go to the Olympics".
obNr TIL there is a jellyfish whose sting will leave you with and “Inpending sense of doom” and suicidal thought lasting up to two weeks
wWyE TIL that the Yellow Star imposed upon Jewish citizens in Nazi Germany was not a Nazi invention but originated in Medina under Islam in the 8th century
dllj TIL you only need 27% of the US population to vote for you to become president.
N7eoN TIL that The word "PEZ" comes from the German word for peppermint—PfeffErminZ