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4 years ago

The invasion of Normandy had 26 staggered waves of soldiers and not just one giant assault at all once. dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/beach…

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4 years ago

U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower ordered Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba to be assassinated by poisoning his toothpaste en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_L…

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4 years ago

In 2002 an amateur astronomer thought he had discovered an asteroid but the object turned out to be a segment of apollo 12's rocket which had failed to burn up in earth's atmosphere en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3

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4 years ago

Many public libraries in the US participate in Inter Library Loan (ILL). That means you have access to virtually any book, journal,magazine or dvd held by any library in the country en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibr…

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4 years ago

After an obese umpire died during a game, Major League Baseball decided to enforce weight limits. In 1999 under this policy, umpire Eric Gregg was fined $5,000 for exceeding 300lbs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gregg

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The first reported successful blood transfusions were performed by the Incas as early as the 1500s. Spanish conquistadors witnessed blood transfusions when they arrived in the sixteenth century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_tra…

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4 years ago

You might be interested in learning about "formaldehyde hunger" a well-known phenomenon in anatomy labs where med students get hungry while dissecting cadavers, allegedly due to formaldehyde being an appetite stimulant. gmr.scholasticahq.com/article/11889-…

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4 years ago

Many people in ancient Rome who were among the educated elite were aware that lead was poisonous and some of these people even tried to make others aware of this. talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/08/30/why…

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4 years ago

The ADA exclusively recommends "soft" bristles for toothbrushes. Medium or firmer brushes are considered harmful because they can erode teeth enamel and damage your gums. ada.org/en/member-cent…

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4 years ago

You might be interested in learning about woody breast syndrome, which gives chicken breasts this weird rubbery texture even if cooked right. thepoultrysite.com/articles/why-d…

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4 years ago

The palates used to test color blindness are called the Ishihara color palates. First developed in 1917, they are still one of the best and easiest ways to test for color blindness. aao.org/eye-health/dis…

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4 years ago

The 'Diablo font' is actually an open-sourced font called 'Exocet', used for example on the welcome sign to Numedal, Norway. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet_(t…

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4 years ago

The location chosen for Narita International Airport in Tokyo was very controversial. Some locals resisted violently. There were riots, bombings, little old ladies being dragged out of houses by police. Several people died. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanrizuka…

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4 years ago

Baby cheetahs are usually born in litters of three to five. They are blind at birth and are covered with a thick coat of fur, called a mantle, which helps to protect them from predators. animals.mom.com/about-baby-che…

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4 years ago

Ripley was originally going to die in the first Aliens but 20th Century Fox wouldn't allow it esquire.com/entertainment/…

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4 years ago

The Great Pyramid of Giza (aka the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) was the tallest man-made structure in the world for more than 3,800 years before being beaten by Lincoln Cathedral. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t…

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4 years ago

'sea level' is not exactly the same everywhere in the world. For instance, the absolute water level height is higher along the West Coast of the United States than the East Coast. oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/globalsl…

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4 years ago

Clint Eastwood ran for Mayor of Carmel, CA, out of spite, and won in 1986. wideopencountry.com/clint-eastwood…

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4 years ago

There was a mysterious culture in Eastern Europe between 5,500 to 2,700 BC which constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements - only to burn them to the ground every 60-80 years to rebuild the same settlement as before en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%…

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4 years ago

P.T. Barnum's famous elephant Jumbo got his name from the Swahili word for chief. It was the elephant who caused the word "jumbo" to mean something large - not the other way around. dustyoldthing.com/jumbo-the-elep…