Post * A6Xw — Curious Curator

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TIL There are Apple stores in China that are completely counterfeit

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R7Jp8 TIL they don’t use street addresses in Nicaragua and instead navigate by reference points. For example, “two blocks to the lake, then go three blocks south and one down.” This method is even used to address mail and deliver pizzas.

J1JL4 TIL that the Hoover Dam contains enough concrete to build a two-lane road from San Francisco to New York.

6ynX TIL: The Beatles trip to India ended badly because the Maharishi wanted the band to deposit up to 25% of their next album’s profits in his Swiss bank account as a tithe, to which Lennon replied, “Over my dead body”.

NaeN TIL that during the Battle of Britain, German ace Adolf Galland was asked what his pilots needed to defeat the British. He replied “I should like an outfit of Spitfires for my squadron”; Galland had found that the British fighter was much more maneuverable than his own Bf 109 aircraft.

GAyMN TIL The Keroman Base in Lorient France was Among the last WWII Strongholds to surrender because it was so heavily fortified not even bombing will destroy it. In the Battle of the Atlantic allies chose to bomb the surroundings instead to reduce its effectiveness. It could harbor 30 U-boats.