› added 1 year ago

40

TIL The US had drones during WWII

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

e0VbJ TIL that "125 meters west of the Pizza Hut" can literally count as an address in Costa Rica.
x6Awb TIL about the Wada Test, a procedure that "shuts down" one hemisphere of your brain at a time, leaving the other one awake. This allows the hemispheres to be evaluated for language and memory capacities individually.
KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.
rRyPx TIL in the early 20th Century women would use their hat pin to physically defend themselves from being harassed in public transport. It worked so well that law makers at the time outlawed it. In Australia, sixty women went to jail rather than pay fines for wearing “murderous weapons” in their hats
QJXwX TIL The Singapore passport is the strongest passport in the world in terms of travel freedom followed by Japan and UK. Singapore citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 180 countries and territories including the world's three largest economies - China, USA and the EU except India.