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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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Creepy Wikipedia
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Creeepy.
Or rather, eerie—
Sometimes people pluck things out of the ether. In the lead up to D Day there was a huge concern after a bunch of code words from the invasion ended up in a cross word puzzle. Intelligence officers interviewed the puzzle creator and determined that it was merely by chance.