TIL There was a concentration camp on British soil in Alderney. It is known as "The Island of Silence" as not much is known about the exact atrocities that took place.
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Christians United for Israel
The Island of Silence: Uncovering the Nazi concentration camp on British soil
TIL about the Crazy Horse Memorial, the World’s Largest Mountain Carving which has been actively under construction since 1948 in South Dakota
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Submitted January 14, 2024 at 08:45AM by RossSheingold
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crazyhorsememorial.org
The Mountain : Crazy Horse Memorial®
6,532 ft and ranks 27th highest mountain in South Dakota
TIL about a batman, an individual assigned to a commissioned military officer as a personal servant. An officer's batman was also responsible for the officer's "bat-horse" that carried his kit during campaigns before cars were invented. The term also predates the superhero Batman's appearance.
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Submitted January 14, 2024 at 04:21PM by OogaBoogaPimp
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Batman (military)
soldier or airman assigned to an officer as a personal servant
TIL Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, AKA ‘Butcher of Lyon’ for his torture of Jews and French resistance, was smuggled by the US to Bolivia for anticommunist work. For 30 years he also aided multiple dictatorial regimes, paramilitary groups, and even Pablo Escobar with security and torture services
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Submitted January 14, 2024 at 05:58PM by ma-tfel
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Klaus Barbie
German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal (1913–1991)
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TIL that Bobby Driscoll, the voice of Disney's Peter Pan, lost his film contract due to puberty related acne, turned to drugs, went to prison, hung out with Andy Warhol, and died penniless and alone in an abandoned building in the East Village.
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Submitted January 14, 2024 at 05:38PM by monkeypickle
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Bobby Driscoll
American actor (1937–1968)
TIL the first President of the U.S. to die in office, William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), still hasn't yet been assigned a definitive, proven cause of death by medical science; only likely ones
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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration as president in 1841, making his presidency…
TIL that Adolph Hitler's half nephew - William Patrick Hitler - served in the american navy during WW2, fighting against his uncle and receiving a purple heart. He only changed his name to William Patrick Stuart-Houston after the war.
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 03:03AM by lemelisk42
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William Stuart-Houston
Half-nephew of Adolf Hitler (1911-1987)
TIL the IRS cannot cash single checks (including cashier's checks) for $100 million dollars or more.
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 04:55AM by mankls3
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TIL the Babylonians used base 60 instead of base 10 for their mathematical calculations. This is why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 07:30AM by Abdullah733
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Babylonian cuneiform numerals
numeral system used in ancient Babylonia
TIL that because of the US Airways aircraft incident on the Hudson River (portrayed in the movie "Sully") 70,000 Canada geese have been intentionally killed in 17 different locations around New York City to prevent further complications with flights.
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US Airways Flight 1549
2009 aircraft accident in New York, USA
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TIL NASA has their own SWAT team
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 09:42AM by LOSERS_ONLY
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NASA
Emergency Response Team Places in Top 10 at Annual SWAT Round-Up International Competition - NASA
NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) members finished in the top 10 overall during the 37th Annual SWAT Round-Up International at the
TIL that the reason Washington DC was created as a perfect square was due to vague wording in The Constitution in which it stated that the capital district must be "10 miles square".
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Atlas Obscura
Washington, D.C., and the Quest for a Perfectly Square City
It all goes back to a rather literal reading of some rather vague instructions in the Constitution.
TIL modern Africa is associated with large mammals like elephants, lions, and rhinos, but large mammals had a global distribution until a mass extinction roughly 11,700 years ago and Africa is simply the only continent that retained a large amount of them
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Earth.com
Vanishing giants: Study reveals shocking decline of large mammals in Africa
This slow loss reflects the long-term decline of large mammal diversity since the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs
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TIL Candlewicks are asymmetrical braiding. When it burns it curls on that side. Before that invention you had to trim the wick every few hours as your candle would smoke.
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Swiss National Museum - Swiss history blog
In the days when candle wicks still had to be trimmed…
Until the first half of the 19th century, a pair of candle scissors was an essential tool in every home, and the wick-trimming tool of the lighting technician in every major theatre.
TIL the shortest war in history was just 38 minutes.
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 05:50PM by Different_Plate6441
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Anglo-Zanzibar War | Summary, Facts, & Duration
Anglo-Zanzibar War (August 27, 1896), brief conflict between the British Empire and the East African island sultanate of Zanzibar. When prince Khalid ibn Barghash seized the throne, British cruisers fired on his position. The war lasted no longer than 40…
TIL during five periods since 1990, Delaware has been the only U.S. state without any scheduled commercial airline flights. The periods were 1993 through 1998, 2000 to 2006, April 2008 to June 30, 2013, April 2015 and February 2021, and most recently from June 2022 to January 2023.
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Wilmington Airport (Delaware)
Wilmington Airport (IATA: ILG, ICAO: KILG) (formerly known as New Castle Airport, New Castle County Airport, sometimes referred to as Wilmington-New Castle Airport, or to a lesser extent Wilmington/Philadelphia Regional Airport and Greater Wilmington Airport)…
TIL that the island of Ocracoke, North Carolina was the location where the pirate Blackbeard died on November 1718.
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 06:08PM by unikaled
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Ocracoke, North Carolina
census designated place in Hyde County, North Carolina, United States
TIL birth rates in the U.S have dropped more than 20 % since 2007
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 06:56PM by LatinaaBanina
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The Conversation
US birth rates are at record lows – even though the number of kids most Americans say they want has held steady
Childbearing goals have remained remarkably consistent over the decades. What has changed is when people start their families and how many kids they end up having.
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TIL that the "feels like" temperature refers to an actual physical difference in how quickly your body loses heat rather than just how the temperature is perceived psychologically
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 06:59PM by owiseone23
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Wet-bulb temperature
temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth
The iPhone X, which cost $999, contained so much components from Samsung that the company earned $110 per device sold
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Medium
Inside Samsung, one of the most unique tech companies
For nearly 300 weeks in a row, my co-host Freddy and I have been following the goings-on in the tech sector to talk about it in our podcast…
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TIL After the Landing on the Hudson by Captain Sullenberger due to bird strike, NYC killed nearly 70,000 Canadian Geese, Gulls, and other birds in response
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Submitted January 15, 2024 at 08:00PM by MangyTransient
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the Guardian
Nearly 70,000 birds killed in New York in attempt to clear safer path for planes
Bird-killing programs at airports ramped up in response to 2009 accident when jetliner was forced to land in Hudson river after birds were sucked into engine