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TIL: Pollen isn’t always yellow, it has a vast array of colours.

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neYar TIL During the D-Day invasion, the Allies dropped thousands of decoy dummy paratroopers called Ruperts that couldn't be distinguished from real paratroopers at a distance, these fakes sent Nazi forces chasing them inland in pursuit while real paratroops landed closer to Cherborg and Caen
GYxNJ TIL that the Soviets won the battle of Stalingrad by breaching Nazi flanks and attacking the Stalingrad from behind. The name of this operation? Operation Uranus.
VMGvD TIL that director Fritz Lang had a meeting with Goebbels
nWkgb TIL that in 1977 the city of Florence, Oregon accidentally banned having sex.
ZWLa TIL that a parrot named “Alex” was the very first (and only) non-human animal to ask an existential question. He asked what color he was, and learned that he was gray.