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TIL: about Operation Gunnerside. 75 years ago 11 Norwegian commandos on skis infiltrated and destroyed a Nazi chemical plant developing the Atomic Bomb. They never fired a shot and Historians believe this set the Nazis back far enough for the US to develop The Bomb first.

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