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5 Little-Known Facts About D-Day
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Not long after the United States entered World War II in December 1941, Allied leaders Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt — along with commanding Allied general Dwight D. Eisenhower — began to plan an invasion of Nazi-occupied France. Opening a new front was vital to defeating the Nazis, so plans were set in place for Operation Overlord — the codename for the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. The massive operation began the liberation of France and other parts of Western Europe, ultimately turning the tide of World War II and bringing about the ...Read More
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World HistoryFact3Birthdays weren’t always celebrated because few people even knew their birth date.
Birthdays are often a big deal in the modern world, marking milestones such as being old enough to drive or vote, or acknowledging the start of a new decade of…
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World HistoryFact2Medieval people sometimes slept in two shifts.
Most adults need about seven hours of sleep per night, but there’s nothing in the rule book about getting all seven hours at once. For the thousand or so years…
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World HistoryFact4The richest shipwreck ever holds around $18 billion in treasure.
When the San José first set sail in 1698, it probably wasn’t expecting to be making headlines three centuries later. The 64-gun galleon belonging to the Spanish navy sank in…
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World HistoryFact3People used to be buried with bells attached to their coffins in case they woke up.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, fear of being buried alive was widespread. Newspapers and pamphlets — not to mention gothic novels and “penny dreadfuls” — reported cases of mistaken…
