› added 1 year ago

45

TIL about the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, a failed coup d'état by Nazi party leader Adolf Hilter. He was tried and found guilty of treason and imprisoned which ultimately led to his rise in power.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

7rOYL TIL French horticulturist Francis Meilland developed The Peace Rose between 1935-1939. He sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and The U.S to protect it. It is said that it was sent to the US on last plane available before the German invasion.
Lk5ep TIL that, Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence, was chemically castrated by the British Government for being a homosexual; following which he took his own life in 1954. He officially remained a criminal until 2013.
gMyBA TIL prison ships are a thing. There's actually one floating around New York.
rlG1 TIL When Miley Cyrus was asked which Jay-Z song she was referring to in “Party in the USA”, she replied that she had never actually heard one of his songs.
BP6k TIL using baby talk with infants has valuable implications for language acquisition. This exaggerated speech style gives babies information about their ambient language, allowing them to break up what they hear into smaller chunks and process the patterns in their language more easily.