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TIL When the D-Day forces landed, Hitler was asleep. None of his generals dared send re-inforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him.

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69PlJ TIL as of 2016, 40 percent of the 2,753 who died during the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks still have not been identified.
oLxW TIL Paraguay’s first dictator, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, forbade colonial citizens from marrying one another and allowed them to marry only blacks, mulattoes or natives, in order to break the power of colonial-era elites and to create a mixed-race or mestizo society.
lowoG TIL hummingbird nests are the smallest in the world. Most species of hummingbirds weave spider silk into the nest for structural support and to make it more elastic to accommodate the offspring as they grow. Often lichen will be attached to the outside of the nest for camouflage.
BrBwD TIL In the Strepsiptera the forewings evolved into halteres while, in the Diptera, the hindwings changed into halteres. Halteres have evolved at least seven times in insects, and in most cases it is known to be associated with improved manoeuvering in flight.
EgdJX TIL to avoid detection by sats Indian scientists working on nuclear testing would only work at night and return things to normal place by morning