Post * 0wpkN — Curious Curator

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TIL: When testing underwater acoustics during the cold war in 1960, scientists detonated a series of 300lb bombs off of Perth, Australia. This was heard three and a half hours later 10,000 miles away in Bermuda.

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69g4X TIL abou Fritz Haber, a Jewish German chemist who discovered the mass synthesis of Ammonia as fertilizer. He later aided Germany in WW1 by discovering Nitrogen explosives, weaponized Chlorine gas and early versions of Zyklone gas.

nMdB TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was “grey”. (pdf)

p8x0N TIL of Prince Estabrook. A slave who was wounded fighting alongside patriots at Lexington and fought until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. He was emancipated after the war.

Z8la TIL: Last year, the norwegian police only fired a gun in one occasion. In 2007, not a single shot was fired.

lodmr TIL of the Stockbridge Militia, a Native American military unit from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which was the first group of Native Americans to fight for the cause of American independence during the Revolutionary War.