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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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Pl6w TIL Jack Kerouac once got so drunk, he enlisted in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard on the same day.
wL971 TIL of Princess Pingyang. At age 28, she built & led a rebel army that won the 1st victories of her father's rebellion and helped found their dynasty: the Tang. When she died in 628 AD her brother, Emperor Gaozu, went against gender norms of his day and insisted a state military funeral for her.
Ooe5a TIL that Scotland Yard has a team of over 200 “Super Recognisers” who can remember 80% of faces they ever seen. The rest of us can do about 20%.
wpDM TIL when Clinton took office, 8 out of the 9 Supreme Court justices were Republican apointees
Envp TIL that in 1899 a bolt of lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in taranto, italy thirty years later his son was killed in the same way and in the place. On October 8, 1949 Rolla primarda, the grandson of the first victim and the son of the second, became the third