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TIL the massive decimation of native populations in the Americas in the 1500s led to vast areas of cultivated land reverting to wilderness. This reforestation in turn contributed to a period of global cooling known as the "Little Ice Age"

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kOX9E TIL the producers of "Strange Bedfellows" sued Universal Studios, claiming that "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" had over 100 common plot points to their film, released three years prior - only to discover that the first draft of the script was written before production started on Bedfellows
grLO7 TIL in Leave the World Behind (2023), a coordinated attack of 1) disabling communications and transportation, 2) synchronized chaos via disinformation, and 3) civil war and societal collapse was the most cost effective way of destabilizing a dysfunctional society.
4keN5 TIL of The Ghost Army. They were a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II. During their tenure, the Ghost Army carried out more than 20 deception campaigns, putting on a "traveling road show" using inflatable tanks, sound trucks, fake radio transmissions, scripts and pretense
X0AJj TIL that barnacles (balanus glandula) are sticky little crustaceans related to crabs, lobsters, and shrimps.
a8PmN TIL Napoleon had planned an invasion of the UK but it was never carried out. Preparations were financed by the sale of the Louisiana territory to the US which the US financed with a loan from a British bank, so Britain was indirectly funding an invasion of itself.