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TIL Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock’s capture. There was no way out and anyone who died within the chamber would have to be embalmed and cemented into the floor.

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gM0R7 TIL the lyrics to the music in the game Neir:Automata were invented by listening to songs in many languages and jumbling them up together and trying to imagine what they would sound like after 1000 years of drifting.
E1vKx TIL that there is a subspecies of mosquitoes that has adapted to life in the London Underground by neither requiring water to lay its eggs nor hibernating in winter months
R79kl TIL that availability of potatoes played an important role in spurring economic growth in the 18th & 19th centuries. The introduction of the potato explains the 25–26% of the increase in old world population and 27–34% of the increase in urbanization between 1700 - 1900.
AN7ka TIL that a higher % of people in Jamaica speak English, than in the USA.