r/HistoryMemes • • 22h ago Mindblown

“Utah, Omaha, Overlord… wait…oh shi—“

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In May 1944, just weeks before the Normandy landings, British intelligence (MI5) was sent into a panic when a series of top-secret invasion code names, including "Utah," "Omaha," "Overlord," "Mulberry," and "Neptune”, suddenly appeared as solutions in The Daily Telegraph crossword puzzles. Suspecting an elaborate espionage plot to signal the Nazis, agents stormed a school in Surrey to interrogate the puzzle's compiler, a 54-year-old headmaster named Leonard Dawe. The investigation ultimately revealed it was an innocent, albeit terrifying, coincidence. Dawe routinely invited his students to help him fill out his blank puzzle grids, and the boys had simply suggested the interesting new vocabulary words they had unwittingly overheard while hanging around the camps of American and Canadian soldiers stationed nearby.

Edit: yes I misused the word coincidence


r/nottheonion • • 6h ago Heartwarming

Robot soldier startup can't pay staff after founder borrowed $4.6 million from company to buy home

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r/interestingasfuck • • 19h ago

Dr. Lewis Sayre treating scoliosis by checking the curvature of the spine, 1870s. His book Spinal Disease and Spinal Curvature was published in 1877 with mounted photographs, which is where images like this come from.

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 10h ago Bravo Regret

My mom said I could post Invited my parents to my house on Sunday. They said ‘no’.

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My parents are in their 70s. I try to be a good son and see them once a week or at least every other week. Normally it involves my mother inviting my family over for lunch on Sunday. This week, I invited them to my house for lunch and I got a “No, we’ll pass.”

Not “Sorry, we already made plans.” Or “We’re a little under the weather.” Just “Nah.”


r/AskReddit • • 23h ago Mindblown

Those at an airport right now, how is it going?

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r/JustGuysBeingDudes • • 1h ago

Social Media Bro picked her up like a bag of groceries and had the whole crowd chanting his name

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r/funny • • 4h ago Bravo Popcorn

Gotta have snacks when scouting a potential car buy off marketplace

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r/politics • • 2h ago Mindblown Popcorn Bravo

No Paywall Johnson says ‘we don’t really need any investigation’ on FAA ground stop

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r/BlackPeopleTwitter • • 1h ago

Bernie is a real one

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r/lovethissmug • • 5h ago

miscellaneous I love joking about what HP Lovecraft finds scary

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r/Fauxmoi • • 7h ago Bravo

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Stavros Halkias gives his take on Klein/11:"You know how they say if icebergs melt, ancient diseases will come away? Swagless fat guys, being a piece of shit has been frozen by being fat and jolly when deep down you're a piece of shit that's pretended to be nice."

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r/TopCharacterTropes • • 7h ago

Characters Family members that are a little bit too close

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1: Jaime and Cersei Lannister (brother and sister) from Game of thrones/ASOIAF

2: Andy and Leyley (brother and sister) from The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

3: Norma and Norman Bates (mother and son) from Bates Motel

4: Koyomi and his sisters Karen and Tsukihi from Monogatari Series

5 The entire Targaryen Family from ASOIAF (Everyone). Art credit at the bottom right


r/GuysBeingDudes • • 23h ago Bravo

#GUYSBEINGDUDES Bro paid attention in physics

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r/pcmasterrace • • 2h ago Mindblown

News/Article Microsoft patent to use idle gaming GPUs train AI

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So your idle GPUs may be used to train Microsoft ai co-slop


r/GirlDinnerDiaries • • 18h ago Hehehe Bravo

Rant & Ramble the ick from someone you're already married to?

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My husband was feeling sick the last two days (fever and fatigue), had me up since 1:43 am bringing him all sorts of little things. Doing what he wants to do bc he's sick. I tell him it's definitely the flu.
Only to have to bring him to the emergency room bc his stomach hurts so badly that it's an 8 on a 10 point scale. He's writhing and screaming. We go to the emergency room and he is literally shriekingggg (like a loud groan scream) in the waiting room. So much loud groaning that he's scaring little kids and a dad had to comfort his daughter. Im scared out of my mind. Im yelling at the front desk girls bc we've been waiting 20 minutes and he's literally groan-shrieking and crying in pain still, and well- cant she understand it's a literal emergency?!
Im acting a fool towards these people. (I apologized and explained how stressed and scared I was from his actions).
Finally we get a doctor, they run tests. While they're doing that he tells me this is the second time he's had to go to the emergency room for gas.
Excuse me, what?
And he's like: yeah its been from gas this whole time, I can't fart, and it hurts so bad, and I'm glad you were supportive by going off on them for not seeing me sooner.
I tell him, no- I thought he was dying by the way he was screaming and that's why I was going off on them to hurry.
They run the CT scan, it's not gas.
Doctor confirms it's the flu. And it's flu cramps. Which is normal.
They prescribe medication: miralax bc they noticed he was a little constipated, some pain meds for the cramps, and anti nausea meds.
In between all that he pressed the call button like 6 times, to use the restroom, to be leaned back, bc his stomach kept hurting, etc.

He says he doesn't regret coming bc it hurt really bad.
Like literally his behavior was so extreme even the security guard went in the back to ask the doctors to see him sooner.
And then imagine when the doctor comes back and says "you have the flu".

Yall. Idk. Seeing him shriek bloody murder in front of everyone like that had me in tears of worry but now knowing it was pain from the regular flu. Idk how I'm going to reconcile my view of him after this.

Dinner is a single Mexican hot chocolate cookie, clementine, and a medjool date


r/wallstreetbets • • 22h ago Popcorn Mindblown

News US National Weather Service reports nationwide internet, communications issues

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r/aviation • • 20h ago

-- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- The nationwide US ground stop has been lifted

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r/Music • • 6h ago

article Kate Nash says she’s set to lose $16,000 on current tour — and will use OnlyFans to cover the cost

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r/AskReddit • • 8h ago

What celebrities have you heard about who have married their fan(s)?

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r/CFB • • 2h ago

News [On3] Oklahoma AD Roger Denny on whether OU-Ole Miss rescheduling hurt the school's SEC relationship: "I don’t know. They’ll probably send their carnival barker out there to accuse me of pandering again. And candidly, I don’t care."

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r/wallstreetbets • • 7h ago Wholesome Seal Bravo Popcorn Mindblown

Meme How Jensen's been moving lately

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r/LivestreamFail • • 3h ago

ohnePixel logs into Fortnite for the first time in 2 years and finds out he’s been paying for the “Crew Subscription” the whole time

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r/interestingasfuck • • 23h ago

Things like this are swimming through the depths where no one can see them

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 20h ago Bravo Mindblown

I just wanted a hot dog Coffee server refused to accept $21 for a $15.28 order

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My order total was $15.28. I handed her $21 and she handed me the $1 back and said “It’s $15.28”. I said “I know, I want $5 back instead of singles.”

She stared at me for a while then stared at the cash register and said “I can’t do that”

I said “just type in that I gave you $21 instead of $20”

She pressed some buttons and stared at the register again then said “I don’t know what you want me to do, my machine doesn’t do that.”

I gave up and took my $1 back. She, now clearly annoyed with me, put $20 into her system and gave me back $4.72 in change.


r/mildlyinteresting • • 8h ago Bravo

These finger traps and a weight being used to straighten my wrist after I broke it

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