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On the night of April 28, 1944, more American soldiers were killed rehearsing for D-Day than were killed storming Utah Beach on D-Day itself. It happened in secret, and the survivors were ordered to take it to their graves. Most did. Six weeks before the real invasion, the US Army staged a full dress rehearsal at Slapton Sands in Devon, a beach chosen because it looked almost exactly like the Normandy shore codenamed Utah. Eisenhower wanted it realistic, so they used live ammunition. That decision killed men before the enemy even arrived, when timing went wrong and incoming troops were shelled by their own naval guns on the sand. But the worst was still hours away. Just after midnight, a convoy of eight tank landing ships, packed with men, trucks and fuel, was crawling across Lyme Bay in a long slow line. Out in the dark, nine German E-boats had slipped in from Cherbourg, and they could not believe what they were seeing. The convoy was nearly defenseless. One escort ship had been damaged in a collision and sent to port, never replaced. Worse, a typo had put the landing ships and their lone escort on different radio frequencies, so the warnings that could have saved them were broadcast to no one. The E-boats opened fire. One ship burst into flames, another was hit and went under in about six minutes, taking hundreds down with her. Men poured into water barely above freezing. Then the cruelest detail: they had been issued life belts but never trained to wear them, so many strapped them around the waist instead of under the arms. When they jumped, the weight of their packs flipped them face-down, and the belts held them there. Hundreds drowned upside down in their own life jackets. By dawn, around 749 Americans were dead, more than would die taking the actual beach on June 6. And the generals had a problem bigger than the bodies. Ten of the officers aboard held BIGOT clearance and knew the time and place of the entire invasion. If even one had been pulled alive from the sea by the Germans, D-Day would have had to be cancelled. Frantic teams searched the water for all ten. Every body was recovered. The secret held. So the whole thing was buried. Bodies quietly interred, paperwork sealed, survivors warned that talking meant court martial. The records were not declassified until 1974. For decades these men had no monument and no mention. They died twice, once in the water and once in the silence that followed. It was called Exercise Tiger. Now you know.

Mark Marshall has just casually dropped a video of how to Build a vertical garden with wall pods that made his garden look priceless.

Remind me to never get on @AshtonForbes's bad side😂

What she said! Source: vics_sips

10/10 for attitude 😂

Some folks dream of the open road... me, I've been thinking about the open water and the open sky-preferably at the same time. Now sure, dreams like that don't come cheap-anywhere from about $230,000 to $450,000 depending on how fancy you want to get. You're buying early morning takeoffs, quiet landings on glassy water, and stories your grandkids will swear you made up. 😃

The design insight here is one of the best I've ever seen in vexillography. 195 national flags all solve the same problem the same way: pick colors, pick symbols, put them on a rectangle. Japan chose a red circle. Brazil put a starfield on a globe on a diamond on a green field. Nepal said forget the rectangle entirely. Every single one freezes the nation into a static image. The flag of Libya under Gaddafi was literally just a green rectangle. Nothing else. Simplest flag in history, and it still failed to represent the country because any symbol you choose becomes the thing people argue about instead of uniting behind. This design does something structurally different. The transparent material means the flag in a desert shows a desert behind a blue dot. The same flag in a forest shows trees. On a mountain, snow. Above a city, skyline. The territory represents itself. The flag just frames it. Vexillologists have five rules for flag design: simple enough for a child to draw, meaningful symbolism, two to three colors, no lettering, and distinctive at a distance. This flag breaks rule three (it has infinite colors because the background is always different) and somehow that violation is the entire reason it works. A Munich photographer named Thomas Mandl designed it in 2016. He's been mailing handcrafted versions around the world since 2019, asking people to photograph it at their location and then forward it to the next person. The flag accumulates context as it travels. Each photo becomes part of its meaning. The closest analogy in design is a picture frame. Frames don't compete with what's inside them. They direct attention. That blue dot says "here is Earth" and then steps aside to let Earth speak.

Time to build major base on the Moon!

Someone edited THE THREE AMIGOS vs. TOMBSTONE and it fits so perfectly 😂🔥

Electric surfboards are about to make jet skis look ancient. Silent, fast, and way too fun.

Japonya’daki yer tasarrufu sağlayan kapılar. Küçük daireler için mükemmel!

O cara voou em primeira pessoa em um avião de brinquedo

Aziz Ansari just appeared as Kash Patel on SNL, and they went innnnn on him "I'm a trailblazer. I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites."

IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER! IT WILL FEATURE A HANDSOME, HIGH-QUALITY PHOTO OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT’S THE BEST LICENSE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THIS IS ABOUT CELEBRATING OUR BEAUTIFUL STATE (IT IS NOT ABOUT ME, DESPITE THE VERY HANDSOME PHOTO!). ENJOY! — GOVERNOR GCN

Tom Cruise runs faster!

Presenting VIN Zero — the very first production Cybercab built at Giga Texas.