› added 12 years ago

94

TIL the Brittish army hired a magician during WWII to fool the Afrika Corps. It worked.

Read more civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com

via bit.ly

6Da7 TIL of a high frequency tone that can only typically be heard by people under 25 years old called the Mosquito tone. Some places use it to deter teenagers from loitering the area.
j6Xen TIL about Prosthaphaeresis, a technique that uses trigonometric identities to quickly approximate a product of 2 numbers by turning it into an addition. It was the only known technique to do so, preceding by 25 years the discovery of the logarithm
v16MR TIL that in the desert, more people die from drowning than from dehydration. This is because people come prepared for low water in the desert, but aren't prepared for flash floods.
KOenQ TIL "The U.S. economy has performed better when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican,almost regardless of how one measures performance."
8aa4Z TIL that if you find a worm in a wrapped chocolate bar, it is probably the Cocoa moth, Ephestia Elutella. When these moths are present in the factory, there’s a possibility their eggs are present in the finished product. The hatched larvae is discovered when someone bites into the chocolate.